Astonishing Luck
Perhaps you don’t believe in luck or fate. It doesn’t matter either way. If you are reading this post, you are astonishingly blessed. How do I know this? Well, for one, in order for you …
Category: Abundance
Paul Hawken’s Commencement
Paul Hawken gave a Commencement Address to the graduating class of the University of Portland. “When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look …
What’s Still True?
I’ve spoken recently several times about one of the challenges of the spiritual journey – that the rules keep changing. What we have held true no longer serves. But the habits of mind keep regurgitating …
Attention!
If you read any spiritual or new age material, you’re bound to run into ideas like ’emotions fuel desires’ and ‘healing the heart’ and ‘the power of passion’. Including on this blog. Emotions are quite …
The Muse
We’ve all heard the message that in order to be a great artist, we must suffer. That the creative muse is a fickle thing, showing up at awkward times and vanishing when she is most …
Waking the Child
I was thinking about the awakening process and realized there was another idea that may be useful in understanding the process. In the journey, much of the construct of “person” falls away as it is …
Messages of Passion
In the move to quiet the mind and release ourselves from the grip of emotion, there is the tendency for spirituality to turn off our passion. To see it as somehow unspiritual. This can be …
Secrets of Success – Addendum
Lists from part one. Richard St. John found 8 common factors: 1) Passion – for love, not money 2) Work – it’s hard work but fun when in passion. “Workafrolic” 3) Good – get good …
Secrets of Success, Part 4
The Past And finally, the big one in the closet, our past. Consciously or not, we are intending all the time. Dreaming, wishing, desiring, and craving. All of this is programming our life experience or …
Secrets of Success, Part 3
Obligation There’s another detail here that can get in the way of our seeing or living to purpose. That is obligation. For example, if you have a child or elderly parents, this creates certain obligations, …
Secrets of Success, Part 2
Believe it or not, everything we experience arises in the mind. We tend to think of the mind as responding to sensory input from a preexisting world. But that sensory input is actually the feedback …
Secrets of Success, Part 1 of 5
One of the curious things about life is that success and happiness are it’s nature. The very function of it’s movement through our lives. Yet while many of us live a life, we find happiness …