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“People decide to live a spiritual life, they think it’s going to be all flower petals and incense; but really it’s much more like ‘I can’t eat my dinner because I’ve just learned something upsetting about myself.’” ~ David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. Transcending the Mind What is the reason that you are a student of … Continue reading BEING AND BECOMING – BUT WHY?
“To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility.”~ bell hooks Few questions are more important to an individual than the question “What is mine to do?” This question calls forth a sense … Continue reading WHAT IS MINE TO DO? HOW AM I TO DO IT?
“There are, then, two kinds of experiences which we call suffering —that which is totally unproductive, the neurotic state of meaningless depression, and that which is the essential condition of every step on the way to what C.G. Jung has called individuation.” ~ Helen Luke When Ernest Holmes wrote that the world had learned all … Continue reading THERE IS SUFFERING AND THEN THERE IS SUFFERING
“Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (attributed) The Latin origins of the word “religion”– In Latin religiō originally meant ‘obligation, bond’. It was probably derived from the verb religāre ‘tie back, tie tight’ (source of the English word rely), a compound formed from the prefix re- … Continue reading YOUR RELIGION IS WHAT YOU DO EVERY DAY
In recognition of the 100th Anniversary of “The Science of Mind” Text, 1926 Edition, let us look at living in a universe without boundaries and how psychic phenomena fit into that idea. “We are not limited by actual boundaries, but by false ideas about life and by a failure to recognize that we are dealing … Continue reading A UNIVERSE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES IS OUR HOME
“Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.”~ Joseph Campbell Reflections on the Art of Being: A Joseph Campbell Companion During the past two weeks, I attended a retreat and a convention in the United States. Both had the idea … Continue reading LIVING JOYFULLY IN THE SORROWS OF THE WORLD: A RECIPE FOR SPIRITUAL GROWTH
“When the world seems to be falling apart, the rule is to hang on to your own bliss. That is the life that survives.” ~ Joseph Campbell The essential message of the work of Joseph Campbell over half a century can be distilled down to one often misunderstood phrase: FOLLOW YOUR BLISS. Campbell was a … Continue reading FOLLOW YOUR BLISS – IN THIS ECONOMY?
“Whatever happens, stay alive. Don’t die before you’re dead. Don’t lose yourself, don’t lose hope, don’t lose direction. Stay alive, with yourself, with every cell of your body, with every fiber of your skin. Stay alive, learn, study, think, read, build, invent, create, speak, write, dream, design. Stay alive, stay alive inside you, stay alive … Continue reading LIVING AUTHENTICALLY IN CHALLENGING…
“If you’ve been feeling confused and as though everything is impacting on you all at the same time, this is not a personal, private experience. This is actually a collective experience.” ~ Adam Tooze, Historian According to Wikipedia, a polycrisis (from the French polycrise) is a situation in which multiple, distinct crises (economic, environmental, geopolitical, … Continue reading WE ARE IN A…
Integrity is a shared process. Integrity is interrelational. Integrity is contextual. Integrity is integrating. Integrity is unscripted. Integrity is a kind of super-attention. Integrity is watching for the cracks in what you thought you knew. Integrity is willingness to learn together. ~ Nora Bateson Integrity is an important word and concept. It is critically important … Continue reading ON…
