Wisdom

Progress on Class

Yesterday I finished up lesson 6 of the class I will be offering through DailyOm.com.  This lesson was on interacting with your Soul Book and it’s always good to write about these things because it forces you to really look deeply and be clear about what you are doing and why so you can present it to someone else. …Details

Slow Down

It’s cliché but also most true that doctors make the worst patients, mechanics drive broken down cars, and those that clean house usually come home to a mess.  What we do for others we rarely do for ourselves.  I’m one of those. …Details

Unexpected smile

Sometimes the unexpected is a good thing.  Somewhere along the line being nice got trampled under the feet of being efficient and being polite became a license for everyone to abuse you.  “The customer is always right” became “the customer has the right to treat you like crap” and so most people wear armor when they leave their houses, try to get the most done in the least amount of time, and wait for the next negative thing to happen. …Details

Forgiveness

Have you ever noticed that Forgiveness is something that gets talked about in Hallmark card terminology?  It’s almost always something we should have or should practice, comes with graphics of flowers or butterflies, and promises to be the answer to issues where harm has been done. …Details

Signals

I like to think of life as communication.  It is all one grand communication between ourselves and everything else.  An intricate web of doingness to which we are all acting and responding every second of every day.  We are part of it, creating it as we go along. …Details

Expectations

How much do other’s expectations of you drive your life?  Have you ever stopped to look at that? Very few of us live a life where we don’t care about anyone else’s opinion, even if we don’t do what they want us to do. …Details

Self Acceptance

I could be wrong, but I believe that one point or another in all of our lives, we have felt that we weren’t good enough.  Not sure about psychopaths and narcissists, but possibly even them.  And the measuring stick that we beat ourselves with seems to be, “Everyone else is better than me, even the people I don’t like that aren’t better than me.”  We sometimes wrap the barbed wire of, “why can’t I be more like them even though I can’t stand them and I don’t like what they do” around the stick for added emphasis during beatings. …Details

Your Soul Book

Every human being is a complex and unique individual.  Full of experience, education, nurturing and neglect, thoughts and ideas, creativity and passion, let alone the capacity for living a fully integrated life in a Universe that is astoundingly diverse and infinitely variable. …Details

The Universe Around Us

It is a very historically recent event that human beings feel that they are seperate from nature or the world and can somehow control it.  That they have the right to safety and peace in their lives and that anything disturbing this is an intrusion or an assault. …Details

2012 – Year of the Dragon

Today is the beginning of the Chinese New Year, the Year of the Black Water Dragon.  I’m really excited about this year because as we mature through this growth spurt of industrialization and all the damage that teen behavior has caused us and the planet, we are beginning to recreate our world by remembering the ancient wisdom of traditional cultures. …Details