Facebook is full of profound images, those that uplift and those that are a warning of dangers going on around us. Nothing wrong with that at all. In fact, in a culture where we are so distanced from each other physically and where local is overwhelming, picking images from the global village makes sense. It’s…
DetailsHow do you identify yourself? Is it through race, political affiliation, career, social status? Who are you? Even if it’s just something you know in your head and in your heart, its worth taking a look at because it colors how you see the world and therefore how the world sees you. The issue of…
DetailsSome relationships are toxic. This is not to blame the other person or people involved, it’s not to say that the choices that got everyone there were wrong or mistaken, nor that the actions were either. However you got there, the relationship brings out the worst results for your and possibly for everyone, and nothing…
DetailsYesterday 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…
DetailsSometimes 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…
DetailsHave 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. It’s like making closure when there is no closure…
DetailsI 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. And what I find lovely is that…
DetailsHow 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. We are social animals and we live in an interconnected world…
DetailsI 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…
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