“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere,
they’re in each other all along…” — Rumi
Come now, aching heart, you have carried enough for one day.
The human body does not know what the word global means. It knows only near and far, safe and threatened, held and exposed.
Trauma is not only what happened — it is what the body could not release. When overwhelming experience is suppressed, it lingers in the nervous system, shaping how we feel, think, and live.
For every soul seeking refuge in teachings of kindness and compassion may you find a safe haven here. Tea & Zen is an institute and sanctuary of advanced contemplative and relational practices, and meditations and spiritual short stories to soothe the aching heart....informed by decades of experiential inquiry into