"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.  Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.  And the point is to live everything.  Live the questions." - Rainer Maria Rike

Today, on Independence Day, I am speaking in front of the congregation at my Unity Church. It will be my first ever public-speaking engagement. I had what I considered a huge spiritual aha about two months ago and decided to make that the theme of my talk. The fact that I am presenting it on the 4th of July is even more appropriate because for me, the experience has been a ticket to freedom. 

By Lissa Rankin, MD

My world has been swirling around Marla Maples's world for some time now. We share mutual friends like Mojo Mentor Tara Sutphen and kickin’ artist Kandy Lozano from my book Encaustic Art: The Complete Guide to Creating Fine Art With Wax. Once upon a time, Marla and Tara interviewed me for Tara’s radio show. But recently we had the chance to connect more intimately, and today I'll be a guest on Marla's Awakening With Marla Maples radio show, so please listen!  I’m so excited to share with all of you where Marla’s vision and mine overlap.

"Give Love," artwork by Rita Loyd (c) 2002

I’m reading Marianne Williamson’s A Return To Love for the first time (and with each word I read, am questioning how my spirit would have allowed me to go so long without this book). I’m sure a gazillion posts are going to be born from my reading of it. However, I’ve just encountered the first moment of truth so intense that it compelled me to put the book down, march inside on this gorgeous day, and write down my thoughts.