Thinking vs Being
When you explore subjects like self actualization and success, you’ll hear messages like “what you believe you receive” or “pretend it to be it.” This may be true for the field of action, of thinking …
Category: Mind
Devolution
As we progress down the spiritual path, there is an interesting phenomena that occurs. While being deepens, the person become more shallow. In a way, we could say the person devolves as spirit evolves. The …
The Okayness that already is
Here is an example of inquiry into presence. In this example, Neelam refers to the Okayness that already is. “Questioner: I can’t get my mind around the okayness of war and torture. Neelam: That’s a …
The End of Surrender
As with all things, everything on the path comes to an end. A prominent example is forgiveness. As we do our work and look at our resistance to certain emotional experiences, we come to a …
Story or Karma or…
Each of us has things in our life that never last. Or that never work out as planned. Who’s fault is this? Or is there fault at all? The world is by it’s nature a …
Empathic Relationship
A few years ago, I met Dr. Judith Orloff after a talk she gave on being Empathic. She’s a psychiatrist and remarkably intuitive. During a Q&A period, she in some cases ignored a persons question, …
Pain holds us All
In the past, I’ve spoken of the mesh, the threads of connection we hold with our past. At the connection or node of each of these ‘threads’ is a grip. A holding, a knot of …
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 …
Mantra, Mantra
Awhile back I started an article on meditation but it soon became clear this was more like a small book than a blog post. I decided to write on just one aspect that is less …
Why Do I Choose This?
Back on the What do you Want?, I shared Adyashanti’s quote “In the end, you will always do the thing you wanted to do most.” In The Good Story, I touch on how the world …
Dissolutionment
As we climb the ladder of spiritual awakening, the growth cycle has a tendency to speed up and the rules get increasing distinct. Each time there is a major change, the rules of ‘reality’ shift …