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Question Affirmations

During Nancy’s workshop, she made an interesting suggestion. She suggested you frame affirmations as a question, placing the future in the present. For example, “What will I need to accomplish X?” The question assumes it …

Gratitude for Self

I’ve spoken here a lot about the importance of gratitude. Being thankful for what’s in our lives helps culture an openness and allowing. It also helps enable support. But there’s a deeper aspect of gratitude …

Conscious Stories

Life doesn’t always make sense. When it doesn’t, our mind naturally tries to fill in the gaps, to explain why. The problem comes when we start to believe these stories. Nancy observes that they then …

Empty is OK

Nancy’s talk brought up a key point: People often fear what they don’t understand. In our culture, we’re taught to fear empty space. Children often have an experience of that expansive openness. But when not …

Meeting What You Need

I’ve spoken here a number of times about the importance of allowing, of letting ‘what is’ be there, of letting emotions arise and complete. When we resist the flow of energy, we don’t see what …

Presence

One of the key qualities of spiritual progress can be a growing sense of presence, of being in the moment rather than in the mind. The mind alone brings us anxiety about the future or …

News

Hi all 1) Finally, I have grunted through the last few years of posts and updated Key Posts. The link on the right (under Pages References) takes you to a summary of links on a …

Grace is Brahman

When people say they awoke through grace, they mean through something higher as yet unseen. It may be strongly felt but is still deeper than direct knowing and being. They recognize it is not the …

Karma is the Blind Spot

In articles here, I’ve occasionally mentioned that karma comes with a blind spot. This causes us to walk into circumstances we otherwise wouldn’t and do things we may later regret. We may even ask ourselves …

Walking

“We’re all just walking each other home.” – Ram Das (servant of God), aka Dr. Richard Alpert, author, Be Here Now (1971) Now in his ’80’s and in spite of a serious stroke, he’s still …

Prayer of Gratitude

In the past, I’ve written several articles on the subject of prayer. In Deep Prayer I discussed the difference between the Petitionary prayer of asking for something and an Intercessionary prayer of surrender; the prayer …

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