Pain Redux
The subject of pain has arisen again, so it would be useful to review the points. All pain, including physical and emotional, is a signal that something is wrong. All we have to do is …
Category: Practice
What Leads to Awakening?
In a recent post, I spoke of how our gifts come, not from our suffering, but from the movement of life through us. This arose from the underlying idea that suffering is necessary and will …
The Fifth Agreement
In prior posts, I’ve spoken about The Four Agreements, an excellent book by DON Miguel Ruiz. Released in 1997, The Four Agreements taught: to be impeccable with your word, don’t take anything personally, don’t make …
Make Peace
Tom Stine posted a short and sweet post I quote below in it’s entirety. It is such an important thing. It is ending this internal battle that will end war. End suffering. End unhappiness. It …
Charter for Compassion released
About a year ago, I blogged about a project to draft a Charter for Compassion. The world was invited to contribute, especially leaders of faiths. “Later this week millions of Muslims, Christians, and Jews will …
Perspectives on the Past
Over on The End of Evil, LiberatedSelf asked about past lives. The feedback that emerged is worth sharing, edited for this scenario. “I’m kind of interested (why wouldn’t the ego be?) in getting to know …
Seeing without Believing
There is a famous saying – “seeing is believing“. When it’s our experience, we know it’s true. And this is true on one level. But it is the mechanism of illusion on another – the …
Giving Challenge
I’ve spoken about Gratitude here a number of times. It was a key step in my own cleaning house. It is an excellent preparation for awakening as it helps us to let go of resistance …
Healing Intention
Recently, I wrote about how Intention is key – practices like visualization are based on the creative drive or intention behind it. I’ve written before about Adam, the Dreamhealer. He has recently launched a web …
Guardians
I’ve always enjoyed a cartoon’s ability to capture the essence of a story, idea, or vision. Both word and picture have to be refined to an aphorism. What they call in Sanskrit a sutra, meaning …
Astonishing!
I am still regularly astonished with what happens. Many of us live in resistance to what shows up in our life. Ironically, we can be fighting what we want because it came in the wrong …
Noble Intention
In a recent discussion over on Takuin’s blog, several people talked of not reading spiritual books for a time. Being in a place where such concepts no longer appealed. I went through a similar phase, …