Our Work

One could make the case that our basic work here on earth is to become carriers and conduits of an other-worldly power and ingredient necessary for the free-flow of the life-blood of the world. We might be tempted to dismiss this idea as too prosaic when we hear that this essential element is "grace," but we would be wrong. Grace is the dynamic energy of divine loving-kindness as an unconditional and eternal acceptance directed toward the fundamental core of our being. That core is God-given, and to acknowledge it and respect it, and stand with it, is something which liberates us. This relationship, of course, is already ours (and all humanity's), but our human need is that we experience it directly and demonstrate it in the way we are with others.

In every human being there are blockages of self-doubt and self-judgment clogging the circulatory systems of the soul which in the end bring dis-ease. In our work with others we can extend unconditional love, grace, and loving-kindness not only toward the whole range of human experience that an individual has known, but more specifically, we can honor the divine core of that person. When we connect with the basic goodness implanted in a human soul, this begins to penetrate the clouds of self-doubt and self-judgment so that an individual's life-energy begins to flow again. In the power of that element a person feels fundamentally known, understood, accepted.

We are here to forge such alliances with the foundations of the human soul in ourselves and in others. This is our primary work, which, as John Welwood has said in Toward A Psychology of Awakening, allows an individual to meet and go through whatever they are experiencing, as difficult and as horrifying as that might be.