“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ~Oscar Wilde Note: Please join my upcoming weekend retreat. I'd love to see you there! Click here for details. Our desire for embodied conscious living asks us to make a deep dive into our present moment experience. And this includes ...Read More
Don’t Trust the Comparing Mind
“We cannot solve problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” ~Albert Einstein If you’re part of the human race, then your mind probably compares. It’s the nature of thoughts to divide the world into this and that, good and bad, better and worse. The comparing mind tells you you’re not good ...Read More
Reflections on the Concept of Other
“The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinion for or against. The struggle of what ...Read More
What to Do with Sticky Patterns
"Someone, who has realized the Truth of what he is, rather than what he has been conditioned to believe he is, will be smiling in every cell of his being. It is infectious." ~ Mooji A powerful insight is illuminated when we realize how much our conditioned patterns interfere with our happiness. Many of these ...Read More
Ease and Flow in Uncertain Times
“If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.” ~Eckhart Tolle Who would ever have guessed that we would get a crash course in uncertainty? Well, here we are. A global pandemic, the health of everyone in the ...Read More
The Heart and Soul of Self-Compassion
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.” ~Buddha Our true nature is endless peace, beyond space and time, and pure aliveness. And it’s beautiful to explore this truth directly. But if you’re like me, sometimes we have very human experiences of getting caught in old ...Read More
Be Devoted to Silence
“Silence has a music of its own. It is not dead, it is very much alive, it is tremendously alive. In fact, nothing is more alive than silence.” ~Osho I’m going to let you in on a little secret. If you’re interested in cultivating peace and ease in your life, if you’re looking for clarity beyond your conditioned ...Read More
Awakened Qualities—Limitless Compassion
“The more evolved you become, the more compassionate you become, the more you show loving kindness to everything, to the mineral kingdom, to the vegetable kingdom, to the animal kingdom, and to the human kingdom. You show total compassion, loving kindness. You become an embodiment of love simply because everything is ...Read More
Awakened Qualities—Comfort with Not Knowing
"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing." ~ Socrates Today’s article is the second in our Awakened Qualities series. You can find the first one here. If we drill down to the absolute truth of things, we see that we have no idea what is going to happen. Life just is, and it ...Read More
Awakened Qualities—Enthusiasm
Welcome to the first article in a series called Awakened Qualities. When you reflect on your everyday life experience, what do you notice? How do you meet the moments of your life? Are you stewed in negative thinking and doubt? Does everything frustrate you? Or are you peaceful, easygoing, and prone to ...Read More
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