Sometimes I look at people and they seem to be going backwards up the slide. Instead of climbing to the top and then letting gravity do the work while they enjoy the rush, they are struggling and struggling to get somewhere they can’t see and complaining all the while that it shouldn’t be this hard…
Details“Many sincere people drawn to Eastern spirituality are in danger of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. In identifying the cause of suffering as desire, they struggle to eliminate it from their being. A number of these people have come to consult me, wondering why their spiritual pursuits have not brought them the peace…
DetailsThere have been times when I’ve gotten a kick out of two people talking at cross purposes to each other. You know, they make comedy skits out of this stuff. You think you’re both talking about the same thing but you’re not or you think you’re talking about something completely different and it ends up…
DetailsEvery have those moments when you have too many things on your mind, too many things to do in the day, too many things in your hands, and if you could just get everything to behave then you could get the keys out without spilling the …#&@^#$(&^#(% *insert adult temper tantrum here* There are many…
DetailsIt’s kinda cracking me up. As we enter into this year of the Goat I’m starting to see goat themed things in the media. Got this advertisement for a concert by the Mountain Goats. And then there’s the We365 app with their provide a goat challenge. Of course giving goats to families in poverty stricken…
DetailsWhat’s exciting about this year is the mix of practical with emotions. If we choose to let go of the old narratives we’ve been living we can use what we gained and what we learned in 2014 to move forward in the life we want to have. In fact, the great thing about a goat…
DetailsMost of the time we look at our emotions as in the way. They interrupt our plans, confuse us when we have things all figured out, point out inconvenient truths we are very strenuously ignoring, and all around bug the crap out of us. So many people are out there trying to will them away,…
DetailsWhen we get into the beginning of a year we’re somewhat geared up to think that new things are starting, that new projects and challenges are forming, that we’re getting a fresh new start on things. What we don’t take into account is that with any new anything, there’s a bunch of prep work that…
DetailsWe’re still in the beginning of the year and there are a lot of us who are still recovering or hung over from all the emotional things that happened last year. Year of the goat, thankfully, is not an explosive year of impactful events, thank goodness, but a time for long-term planning, really meaningful progress…
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