Amedeo Simonetti Wikimedia Commons There is an ongoing tension that we are caught in, yet hardly ever aware of: the tension between our attempts to co-opt life into our personal dreams, goals and projects, and life’s own unfolding field of participation. The irony is that we enter the world as a participant in it – […]
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Why is it that, despite all our efforts and all our self-trained reminders (trained so well they click in automatically), old wounds can still resurface? And still hurt? The world and I are in perpetual dialogue. But am I listening? We may have experienced several cycles of this same, stubborn wound, rupturing and healing. And
The hurt that never goes Read More »
The story of Christmas is an enthralling one especially when you hear it for the first time and especially if that first time was when you were a child. Most of us would have heard the Christmas story when we were very little children, perhaps even infants. And so, for years since, that story, while
Does the story of Christmas have anything to do with the world today? Read More »
For many of us, fearful thoughts, thoughts of unworthiness, doubt and disease, morbid as this may seem, also provide a measure of entertainment, a certain amount of morbid thrill. Neurologically, such thoughts raise our brainwave frequencies from a general low-mid level beta range to high level beta where our attention can narrow down to
Has Love become a stranger to you? Read More »
It’s such a normal thing to do – to talk about someone. We assume we are talking about that person and it’s true we are. But we are also talking about ourselves and that is something that we are not usually aware of and don’t give enough attention to. Let’s look at a few examples
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You can only ever be happy when you feel free because freedom and happiness are frequencies within the bandwidth of LOVE which is LIFE, which is what YOU are. So don’t ever allow your happiness to be contingent upon whether someone or something is present in your life, whether they have promised you their
Are you choking yourself out of Love/Life? Read More »
A young man asked me recently about relationship and intimacy. Specifically, he wanted to know why I was not in a ‘relationship’ and whether I was perhaps fearfully avoiding one :). Now, before I continue, let me just remind us that whatever is said or asked by someone is first and foremost a reflection of
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Dear Friend Today, on your birthday, Let it be known to all present That you have lived your life as the miracle that it is For, from birth to this day, You have showed up every day and Presented yourself to the world And no matter what your relationship with the world has been Or
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How can I see you afresh As you are here and now? Without the history of our last encounter or encounters prior Whether they may have been tragedies or triumphs? How can I see you As an expression of the divine? A glow of pure love To be appreciated, enjoyed, honored? And even though my
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Should I be feeling angry? Should I stop feeling embarrassed? Am I allowed to feel sad? Clearly, these are questions that suggest there is another authority besides the thing that I call ‘I’ that I am mindful of and that I must accede to and that if I don’t, I’d be in worse trouble
The Story of Should Read More »