Peak spiritual experiences are states of oneness, bliss or non-duality where we feel completely connected with everything and everyone around us. This is not a state privy only to those deemed as enlightened. Every one of us has had at…
Harry Chapin: image by Cindy Funk All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. Bill Hicks Brian Wilson‘s 1966 song lyrics, “I’m pickin’ up good vibrations, she’s giving me excitations. Good, good, good – good vibrations,” eludes to one of…
image source: CBC Recently, I wrote a blog titled “Lessons on Love” in which I implied a correlation between a country’s culture of loving kindness and its citizens’ happiness and quality of life. In the two lists of top 10…
The fundamental reason for the epidemic rise of anxiety and depression in our human population is because our minds are too full. We are gorging our minds with too much information and activity without the necessary rest needed for mental…
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.William Shakespeare Somewhere between 1564 and 1616, Shakespeare wrote the words above. If I were to read between his lines, I would suggest he was advising us to lead with love. Given…
As an avid proponent of objective journalism, I often feel like CBC Radio’s published news and views may be as close to the truth as media can take us. Nonetheless, a recent Sunday Edition by Michael Enright disappointed me. Enright’s…
Madness, as in the theme of my soon-to-be-published poetry book, is a relative experience. For instance, the three weeks leading up to Xmas day can be fraught with the chaos of gifts to buy, trees to adorn, lights to hang…
In his recent book, We Are The Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast, Jonathan Safran Foer, speaks to his personal 4-point plan to fight climate change. He states concisely what most of us already know — the top four…
In his 10th edition of The Biology of Belief, Bruce Lipton (2015) draws “the proverbial line in the sand” when he states, “On one side … is a world defined by neo-Darwinism, which casts life as an unending war among…
… dependence and independence both are extremes. Life is deep interdependence. Osho As a proponent of both moderation and collaboration, I recognize in Osho’s words the glaring reality currently faced by humanity. We are not schooled in deep interdependence or…
In the end, it’s all a question of balance. Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, 1995 One of my greatest life lessons could be simplified to “all things in moderation.” In my case, choosing the path of moderation literally pulled me…
In Yogic, Buddhist and Taoist terms, the “wheel of life” or the cycle of birth and death is an ongoing and evolving experience. In these ancient belief systems, humans are vulnerable to repeating the birth-death cycle over and over again,…
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