When attempting to define compassion, many begin by describing it as non-judgment. As someone who wishes to focus on what I want in life rather than what I don’t want (negativity), I would much rather describe the experience of compassion…
Life isn’t a business to be managed, it’s a mystery to be lived. Osho In a recent speaking engagement, I used archetypes to help those attending answer the following question — Who am I Really? An archetype is an…
If little labour, little are our gains: Man’s fate is according to his pains. Robert Herrick, Hesperides (1650) In 1982 when Jane Fonda touted the words, “No pain, no gain,” she was referencing a physical exercise motto intended to build…
In 2004, as part of my yoga teacher training, I wrote the following essay on sacrifice. As with most of my initial thoughts on any subject, much of what emerged reflected my intuition and early experience of what needed to…
In last week’s RRRN meditation and writing circle, we explored our hero/villain archetype — the dual expressions or boundaries of our human experience regarding who we want to be. In our human search for purpose, direction and integration (the hero’s journey),…
Our lives are not our own, from womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future. Sonmi-451, Cloud Atlas Realizing my passion, purpose and potential and then…
An archetype is a mental model or universal pattern of behaviour that helps us better understand ourselves and others. Plato believed archetypes were pure mental forms imprinted in the soul before our birth. Psychologist, Carl Jung, described them as universal patterns…
In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit. Deepak Chopra Consciousness has also been defined as the subjective quality of the experiential mind, or simply put, the mind’s awareness…
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,…
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…
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