by Geoff Barkley | Dec 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain… Love itself is a pain, you might say, the pain of being truly alive.— Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth What a profound and unsettling message....
by Geoff Barkley | Dec 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
From Beyond the Mind: The Gift of Intuition Society today often feels overwhelmingly data-driven. Our minds can become preoccupied with endless streams of information coming from countless sources. And this information isn’t neutral. It’s saturated with opinions,...
by Geoff Barkley | Dec 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
As we learn to listen within—to the intelligence that runs our bodies—we can attune to its messages around one of the most essential forms of feedback: how it responds to the food we eat. Your body speaks in many ways, and its signals are often quite separate from...
by Geoff Barkley | Nov 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
For certain is death to those who are born, and certain is birth to those who have died. Therefore, the wise do not grieve over the inevitable.— Bhagavad Gita We hear these teachings often:The world is impermanent.Life is sorrowful, as the Buddha observed. Taken at...
by Geoff Barkley | Nov 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
Earlier, I wrote about natural emotions and how most of us tend to either suppress the flow of feelings or amplify them, especially when it comes to painful emotions like grief and sadness. I’m no exception. Even after years of “working on” my emotions, I can still...
