Cities and Ambition
An interesting article on the dominant zeitgeist of several American cities. Cities and Ambition (PDF) by Paul Graham In: Cambridge – you should be smarter Silicon Valley – you should be more powerful New York …
Category: Psychology
Questions
Sometimes, what is more important than answers is questions. Answers will take you into the mind. Questions can take you past the mind. Who am I? What am I? Where am I? Am I? Who …
The Shadow Knows
In the opening of Within Bliss, I joked about the ‘spiritually positive’. Some New Age and New Thought communities are rife with ‘Think Positivists’, the idea that if you think happy you’ll be happy. Now, …
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 …
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 …
The Good Story
As we move through the spiritual journey, who we are changes several times. This means that what we perceive changes and thus what we choose. The choice we make. For example, our relationship with the …
Memory and Change
This weekend, I went to a special film showing of Sita Sings. Unusually, it put me downtown during the day. The chance came to go to a coffee shop I frequented about 35 years ago. …
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 …
Why Pain? Part 2
The Image Last year, I wrote an article about relationship and it’s value for stepping out of our story. How it can be one of the most effective for spiritual growth. But if we resist …
Why Pain? Part 1
You may hear such sayings as “All is Love” and “Life is Bliss”. While these are quite literal statements for some people, it is not most peoples experience on an ongoing basis. In fact, many …
Allowing to Clear
On the recent Fear post, Uzma asked about allowing vs going into fear. It seemed useful to share the response and go into it a bit more. Many in fields such as psychology advocate going …