Life is so intelligently organized and self-organizing that it is only the habit of un-awareness that causes us to think and behave as if we could improve on its design, or ignore or resist it! Yet, when we yield to it – the experience of enlightenment – living becomes effortless. We’ve got out ot the way and allowed Life to live us! Magnificently. Joyously. Limitlessly.
Too often, we get sucked down a spiral of unhelpful, dis-empowering thoughts just like I did last night. And we get so consumed by it. And as we do, we feel more and more angry and outraged because, while we may not notice it, we’re feeling that our world, which we’d got to a nice […]
Mindfulness: Soothing balm, penetrating light Read More »
Give it all you’ve got. Every time.
Give it all you’ve got. Every time. Read More »
Too many hours and days and weeks have been spent drifting along the lifeless canals of social media, hoping, on a subconscious level, to be struck with a thunderbolt of holy inspiration. No thunderbolts. Not even silent flashes of lightning. Meanwhile, this human’s chronological age advances and that chronically hoped for life-changing awakening has not
The Lifeless Drift or Why we must keep Growing Read More »
It’s a new year my friends! How is it feeling for you? Does it feel like a new piece of clothing? Does it feel fresh? Exciting? Promising? Does it feel full of goodness and wonderfulness? Or…
The 10 Greatest Lessons of Life Read More »
When you can set aside every judgement, every grievance, every attachment, every resistance, every thread of story (even the finest), when you can set aside all of this, no matter how remote or fleeting or trivial you may consider them to be, when you actually do this, then and only then do you know Love.
I believe that many of us consider ourselves to be seekers. What do we seek? Happiness, Freedom, Truth, Peace, Longevity, Health, Financial security and Soul-mate-ship might be some of the things we seek. Imagine you’ve invited a friend over for dinner. You go about preparing the meal and preparing your home so that the two
Seekers or Ready Receivers? Read More »
One of the things I appreciate about this time of the year is that many of us tend to be a little more reflective than usual especially as we take note of the fact that a new year is right around the corner.
Christmas Blessings Read More »
To be awake To be awake is to know that you can stop trying so hard. In fact, it is knowing that you don’t need to try at all.
I don’t think in terms of “I am proud of…” I just remembered that I’d started saying something about this last night before we sat down for meditation. I’d like to explain… Generally, when we say that we’re proud of something or someone, we’re speaking in terms of a personal and individual achievement. Even when
What’s there to be proud of? Read More »
I’ve written and spoken about the many and profound benefits of mindfulness practice many times (Use the search window on the right to find other ‘mindfulness’ posts). In this piece, I want to highlight yet another benefit. I was recently guiding a mindfulness circle. I invited people to think of something they would be
‘Good enough’ is the Ego’s polite rejection of Life’s wonderfulness Read More »