Lately, wherever I find myself in dialogue with organizational clients or colleagues, the conversation eventually turns to the desire to be in like-minded community. As social beings, we find ourselves working and playing in a variety of f2f and online…
There are many paths to integration — that state of wholeness and balance culminating in a life well lived. As this week’s guest blogger discovered, one of the more significant ways to spiritual growth is through intimate relationship. Here is…
From my own experience with addictive behaviour such as smoking, over-achieving, and pursuing money, I recognize how obsessive dependency on any thing or person enslaved me and distracted me from a healthy whole life. In coming to understand my addictions,…
In two recent conversations with social entrepreneurs (of which I include myself) we lamented the challenge of doing business in an economic environment where surviving is yet to be balanced with thriving. The survival game amounts to business entrepreneurs manipulating…
Over the past week, my thoughts have circled around three topics — • the state of masculinity and male conduct, • the social conundrum of when and how to intervene in another person’s life, and • the one simple action…
Have you noticed when you do what you love or when you create something new, you feel no stress? Why? Because you are operating in the present moment. Stress takes over when we shift our focus into regretting the past…
Last week in Peace is Possible: A New Tipping Point I wrote that our parents’ generation (for those remaining baby boomers) was taxed with transforming war and violence into peace and compassion. On the whole, society has made incremental progress in reducing…
In his 1993 novel, The Celestine Prophecy, James Redfield articulated the following Nine Insights as significant for the then current global experience. A spiritual awakening in human culture, which has been brought about by a critical mass of individuals led…
When Canadians celebrate the birth of our nation, which is considered part of the free world, in truth, we are celebrating our political and spiritual freedom. Although we might take these freedoms for granted, freedom from oppression in our working…
Democracy is defined both as representative (elected) governance and governance by the people, which implies a desired sense of freedom and autonomy by its electorate. Traditionally, the world’s democratic nations, whether socialist or capitalist, opted for representative democracy rather than…
As leaders in our own lives, our greatest challenge is to own our negative behaviour rather than hold others responsible for what we think, feel or do. No one, I repeat, no one can make us think, say or do…
As above, so below. As within, so without. This week I am somewhat obsessed with simplifying and beautifying my physical surroundings, particularly my home and garden. I knew something was emerging on the horizon last summer when I completely renovated…
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