hi Patrick, first of all let me please say again (i wrote you this some time ago) that i totally love your show. i think it's one of the best out there. everything from your selection of guests, to the style of interviewing to the amazing info being put out is just wonderful and very refreshing.

now is this the right place to suggest a guest for the show? i'd like to suggest something a little different from the "usual" range of the show. check out this woman: www.jeanniezandi.com/5.html so amazing to have such a being among us at such times. i don't know her personally, i've just been to one of "her" events and was totally blown away by the selflessness, unconditional love and penetrating insight into our life. i'm especially suggesting this now since she'll be in Austin this coming weekend (starting tomorrow) so you can actually check her out yourself personally. i really wouldn't miss such an opportunity, if i were living in the area. here are the details of the Austin events: January 21, public evening, 7-9pm, Casa de Luz, 1701 Toomey Road. January 22-24, retreat at a private home, details with Glee Ingram 512.443.7522
(sorry if this sounds a bit missionary style, but again, i have absolutely no personal interests or investments in this. i just want people to know that such a state actually exists, that such life is possible)

"What’s been shown to me, in a very decisive and completely humiliating way, is that all we have is right here, right now. And that all there is to do is to meet what’s here, to allow this, however one is moved by the Holy Impulse to meet it. Because if we get into any kind of “out there” and “tomorrow,” we are in the mind, we are in limitation. We are trying to dictate to the Holy, trying to “do” it instead of allowing it to be done through us.


Take off the overcoat of who you need to be in the world and who you need to be in relationship and who you need to be at your job. And let the soft actuality of your being rest here. Like this, just as you are. Turning from what you should be or what you could be or what you're not yet or what you're not enough of, turning from that to the simple fact of your being. Something you don’t have to earn.


There is a deep dignity to being. There is a lack of effort of trying to win anyone over, in just letting yourself be. Not trying to grab anything or get anything or go anywhere, simply filling out your natural dignity. Noticing that you get to be here, and you get to be all here. That you don't need an excuse or a permission slip to be. That you don't have to wait for someone to tell you it's alright to be. You already are.


The Holy is calling us through our bodies, our wholeness is calling us through our bodies. Find the place in your body that cries out the loudest, the one that you're always pushing away, the one that doesn't go away, the hip, the shoulder, the belly. Your complete un-doing as a “person,” that's the loose thread in the sweater that sticks out, saying, “Pull me!” Go there and let the unraveling begin.


The Holy hunts our hearts. It doesn’t really care about our comfort. It wants to feel our beating hearts. It wants to hear our voices speak from where we live.


We’re living in a time when it seems like many, many of us are getting big knocks on the door. It feels like something threatening has come to screw up our life, and we hate it. Throw rocks at it. Close the door on it. But it’s your own self, come to turn you inside out. It’s not an accident, and it’s not about fairness. It’s about being recruited by Love.


Pain is just sensation. Shove it away and you keep yourself from this actuality, this earth, this body, this being, this here, it’s a blessing. It’s calling.


There’s nothing so frightening to us as all-out loving. And nothing we long for more. We simply have to want to know ourselves, to know what love really is, more than we want to live.


Everything that we’ve shoved away, we shoved away with a curse; most of it came from the outside. With a curse comes a hiding, comes a shame. To dare to be seen and to speak from what’s authentic undoes a curse. It’s time to stop hiding behind some fiction of “bad me” and burn through to shining.


This is how we’re meant to know ourselves. Simultaneously being and offering. Not ever keeping. Not ever hoping. Not ever hiding. Rest into your own heart. Leave everything that you know behind and rest into the unknown."