Author name: amynanetteglin

A simple question from the film Frequencies offers a useful distinction—and opens into a larger conversation about attention, listening, and making room for one another.

I’ve developed a theory about stuff and things. Art, books, kitchen items, clothes, spiritual relics, furniture, lamps, cool mirrors from Liberace’s estate—you name it. Having these items is more than just having a thing.…

Years ago, I created a product called Consciousness in a Can. It was a collection of thought, laughter and conversation-provoking quotations. There’s a story about how it went from being an idea in my mind to an actual product in stores, but that’s not what I’m writing about.…

Today, I went to the Portland Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education to see an installation called The Burned Piano Project: Creating Music Amidst The Noise of Hate. The story, the artwork and the performance significantly moved me.…

Let’s make a bet. I bet I can ask you one question that will activate a spark in you and call you to your path; as a honey jar calls to Winnie the Pooh, you will have no choice but to answer. I know this because once this error of thinking is illuminated, grace can enter, and life flows.…

Ever since I was little, I’ve been more interested in the things I can’t see than the things I can see. I remember, as a little kid, clenching my fists and squeezing them real hard with my eyes scrunched and lips pursed, contracting my whole body wanting to connect to something, to know what I…

We humans are so good at making up stories in our heads about what’s happening, calling them true and then interacting with the story instead of the person or situation at hand. Fifteen years ago, I decided to attend a 10-day silent Vipassana Meditation Retreat at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center. I arrived later than…

I had a week full of deep work and release, just had chocolate chip cookies for dinner (homemade, of course) and don’t feel like writing much. But I do want to give you this. In the book Frankenstein, when the monster meets his creator, he persuades the Dr. to listen to his story. He says, talking about…

I recently picked up Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, undeniably a classic tome. I learned about the author in a wisdom tradition lecture series I attended for six years. I saw the movie and watched a documentary about her life, but I have not read the book until now. Reading it tickles me so. I feel connected…

Ever said a part of me feels like this, but another part feels like that? You’re not kidding! We all have different parts of ourselves that live inside us. When you recognize that every part of you is trying to protect you from feeling your wounds, you start having an appreciation for them. All of them –…