The Problem with Being Honest

July 21, 2011

Most peo­ple, when queried, place hon­esty high on the list of their core val­ues. We believe that being hon­est with our­selves and with oth­ers is cru­cial to hav­ing rela­tion­ships work effec­tively. And right­fully so! Who wants to be in a rela­tion­ship with some­one who is a known liar? Who wants to be with some­one they […]

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The Visionary’s Dilemma

July 13, 2011

This piece res­onates with my own expe­ri­ence of danc­ing between my vision and “tak­ing care of busi­ness” at a prac­ti­cal level. It’s the age old dilemma every cre­atively inspired per­son con­fronts: being true to what calls us to embrace a greater vision, and man­age the every­day nitty gritty demands of life. Thanks to Bikkhu Bodhi […]

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Paving A Path To Your Personal Liberation

July 6, 2011

Your spirit’s com­fort zone is the infi­nite and eter­nal. Any­thing else is a path to anx­i­ety and fear. Mar­i­anne Williamson This week, we gath­ered in town squares across the coun­try to cel­e­brate our nation’s birth­day. We gath­ered in churches and syn­a­gogues, marched in parades and stood on curbs wav­ing flags. We went to county fairs, rode […]

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Going With The Flow of the Soul

July 1, 2011

As I’ve writ­ten so many times in pre­vi­ous posts, the soul has its own agenda, and we’d best align with it, for like it or not, the soul will have its way with us. The soul, as our ani­mat­ing life force, will steer our lives in the direc­tion it intends in order to ful­fill its […]

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Healing The Wounds of Your Ancestors

May 18, 2011

“You are a link in a chain of cau­sa­tion that stretches before and after your life for a thou­sand gen­er­a­tions.” –Rev. Chris Michaels, found­ing min­is­ter of the Cen­ter for Spir­i­tual Liv­ing, Kansas City, Mo. If you were born in Amer­ica, some­where in your lin­eage, you can trace back to ances­tors who came here from a foreign […]

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The Revelation

April 6, 2011

She stood at the edge of heaven and earth Look­ing down on the river below her It was filled with the car­nage of bro­ken hearts And the suf­fer­ing of souls who would know her. A bright, eager spirit in spite of it all So will­ing and anx­ious to go To dis­cover the lessons await­ing her there […]

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Learning To Thrive In Uncertainty

April 5, 2011

Human beings abhor uncer­tainty. We want answers, and we want them now. Yet in times like these, when epic change becomes the norm, the only thing that’s cer­tain is that there is more uncer­tainty ahead. We can’t change this; we can only man­age our­selves and our responses to it. Last time, we dis­cussed some ideas for […]

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7 Keys for Braving the Storms of Change

April 2, 2011

If it weren’t already crys­tal clear before now, there can no longer be any doubt. Some­thing is def­i­nitely ‘up’. And what­ever that thing is that’s ‘up’, it’s get­ting more and more ‘up’ by the moment. To what am I refer­ring, you ask? I’ve been writ­ing about ‘it’ for the past two and a half years […]

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The Unconscious Invitation

February 22, 2011

My sub­jec­tive mind, soul’s mor­tal home and seat of imag­i­na­tion, Is brew­ing up a per­fect storm, an “uncon­scious” invi­ta­tion. But what’s the invi­ta­tion, my con­scious mind wants to know? Where is this all lead­ing? Where am I to go? My soul spoke up and calmly replied, “You’ll know soon enough. With faith and trust I’ll get […]

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Reflections On A Birthday, Aging, Life

February 18, 2011

I used to “buy in” to the con­ven­tional wis­dom that grow­ing older meant becom­ing dimin­ished. I’ve watched so many gen­er­a­tions before mine reach “old age” and “retire” from liv­ing. Let me say, unequiv­o­cally, this is not me! This is not my pic­ture of what it means to get old. Yes, today the cal­en­dar marks off another […]

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