There comes a time in one’s wisdom or life’s journey where healing personal wounds is outgrown and replaced by concern for the collective woundedness of humanity and the planet at large. These shared or universal wounds — poverty, pollution, oppression,…
Can you imagine a world where everyone is loved and loving? Now, can you imagine yourself loving everyone? Did your thoughts go to that one person in your life who is difficult to love and who possibly is not loving…
Today, I am in discussion with a friend who, to put it simply, is “in-between” that which he no longer is and that which he has yet to become. Years ago, William Bridges called this transitional space the Void. Others…
One of the great spiritual challenges for humanity is accepting that everything happens for a reason. Literally, this means there are no coincidences. A second equally great challenge is trusting that life (source, spirit, creation, or the god of your…
In the quest to know themselves deeply, clients often pose the above question to me during coaching sessions. A person’s blind spots are those areas of limitation they carry within. At a superficial level, we know they exist but often…
Outside my window, the rain that accompanies deafening thunderclaps is pelting the pavement. These “shouts” from nature are mighty sounds that pique our awareness and our response to take cover somewhere safe. Mother Nature has a simple formula, the more…
Although most western-culture dictionaries treat detachment and indifference as synonyms, they have a crucial difference. Their common element — non-reaction — is paralleled by indifference’s additional qualities — coldness, passionlessness, lack of feeling/sympathy. I thought my friend Chris said it…
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Transformation occurs when we are able to expose our blind spots and release the unconscious but conditioned default patterns associated with them. The challenge is how do we become aware of what we don’t yet know about ourselves. My last…
Knowing that the mind’s afflictions are overcome through penetrating insight [clear seeing] suffused with stable calm, you should first seek the peace of calm abiding, which is found in joy and non-attachment for the world. Santideva Yogis are famous for…
by photostock freedigitalimage.net If you have followed my blog conversations over the past two weeks, their content has ranged from self-sabotage to self-mastery via real-time dialogue between myself and “Sandy”. This continued instalment depicts the shift into clear seeing and…
When we develop our self-awareness, we are strengthening our ability to make healthy choices and evolve self-mastery. In other words, our awareness of our inner experience, in the present moment, overrides our addictive dependencies or co-dependencies on another person. As…
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