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…
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…
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…
I witness the shifting landscape of this body reforming. Nothing to do but leave the shore of my familiar to discover new territory, new shape, new truth. For me, writing is an exercise in integration. Inspired by a particular theme,…
With a death toll of over 1,100 people from a collapsed clothing factory, the Bangladesh government agreed to allow garment workers to form unions without permission from factory owners. If that isn’t startling enough, in this $20-billion US industry the…
What do you see as the greatest source of uncertainty in today’s world? Certainly, driving forces such as digitization, globalization and individuation top most lists as contributors to increased volatility and complexity. However, at the root of human uncertainty is…
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