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The monastery has its fair share of bad vibes, just like any community. We're all just people. With hurt feelings, aggravation and loneliness too. But people come here for hope, for purity and faith...

The nun I work with has taught me a lesson. I know she's had a rough past and that has definitely affected her boundary. She's very much about her boundary and her rules no matter what she's doing....

my sister had that crucial nugget of wisdom ages ago - that 'you' have a hard time acceptingthings that 'just are'. I was sitting here having a hard time dealing myself in the downtime.I noticed I am...

tomorrow i am going to visit a man who used to live hereat the monastery - but turned out to need much more carethan we could give him. he is stabilized now and living in anassisted living community....

Happy New YearI read the Saint Basil's liturgy today for New Year’s Day (old calendar). It’s a special longer ceremony than the usual, from the everyday service. His prayers really hit me today...

Hi friends! It was daunting this morning to get up. Felt so weak and yet I turned it around! There's so much to be grateful for and Blue and I are alive and we get to have this experience....we all...

I got myself a little golden/brass tree and put it next to my bonsai tree and next to my candle:)

I’m starting to see that I romance a little bit about my life in and I think there’s nothing wrong with that but it shouldn’t stand in the way of humanity. I think we all romanticize or romance...

I wrote a bunch of stuff today on a file that I think I might copy and pasteto the end of this journal. I'm in my room. It's the end of the day.I find myself ruminating. I ask myself 'what do I...

I've been without my therapist now for a couple of weeks.It's given me some breathing room and also a chance tolearn things from the afterglow of that marvelous and long termexperience and guidance.I...

I am learning that in whichever business you work in or live in there isa context and a strictness maybe or a code of conduct - for politicalor social reasons - there's a politic to it - but also...

arfie really helped me with this phrase guys.But what also helped was the duality that I have been blind to see up till now.Very often I will go deep with no conscience into an interest that I have -...

you can't always feel good about what you're doing if it's with someonewho is a curmegon or grouch. it really set me off today after I workedsuper hard at meal prep - as I was the only one there.I...

today has been incredible in terms of what I am seeing about myself, the people around me, around town and in life in general.Again 'we're all just people' like my therapist said - but each of us,...