The Golden Thread: How I Found My Spiritual Crazy Quilt

In this piece, I (perhaps) overuse the metaphor of a patchwork quilt. It’s one of my favorites, as it applies to communities and families of every type. Sometimes, the color palette is monochromatic– people in a community have many, many similarities. Sometimes the colors and shapes a complementary– beautiful in their balance. And sometimes, you…

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A Galactic Praise Song: My Dad’s Signs from the Other Side

This is what the Wisdom Studies actually prepare you for. Not the lessons about crystals or breath work or auric reading—though those matter too. They prepare you for the moments when the ground disappears beneath your feet, and you discover you’re still standing. Because the foundation goes deeper than the ground

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How Diesel Fuel Softened My Grief: On Learning to “Experience”

By Amy Marotz, M.Ed. My grandfather, Grandpa Ed, was a second-generation Czech immigrant who dairy farmed the same land in northern Minnesota his entire working life. He was a man of few words and enormous hands—hard-working in the way that generation was hard-working, which is to say he didn’t know another way to be. But…

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Belief Clearing in a Time of Awakening

Releasing the Old Stories So Consciousness Can Evolve Over the past few months, something interesting has been happening in my client sessions. Many of the people reaching out to work with me have been arriving with a similar question: “Why am I suddenly questioning everything? Why do I feel this way?” They describe feeling as…

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Speak Only if it Improves Upon the Silence

Speak Only If It Improves Upon the Silence | GoodKnight.org Philosophy · Spirituality · Personal Growth Speak Only If It Improves Upon the Silence — Mahatma Gandhi “In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light.” — Mahatma Gandhi The Power You Don’t Announce  ·  On silence, humility, and knowing…

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