Emotions are similar to the waves of the ocean. Sometimes you can withstand the pounding, but occasionally one will pick you up and dump you on the rocks. This is when we need to accept that emotions are a part of the awakening process. Feeling them is integral to this process. Without it you willContinue reading “Wave Of Emotion”
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Transforming Work Into Presence
It is probably safe to say that work has become a means to an end for many in our world today. Meaningful work is a hot commodity but increasingly difficult to come by. If you’ve ever seen the movie Office Space, although exaggerated in some respects, it does do a great job of portraying theContinue reading “Transforming Work Into Presence”
Pay It Backward
To be motivated by fear is to be fooled by the illusion of control. Whether it is projected inward or outwardly toward another person, group, or life circumstance. Any type of negative emotion unchecked is an attempt to control the above. Symptoms of this condition are labeling, and judgements. Being right is the apparition presentedContinue reading “Pay It Backward”
Ego Death
People go through many deaths in a week. Changes and the dissolution of situations are like deaths. And many practice denial as a coping method, which is probably the one thing the ego refuses to let go. Never mind what it wants, for there will be no grief shone on the ego. The ego isContinue reading “Ego Death”
Spiritual Exercise
It is probably safe to say that meditation and yoga are the exercises most associated with spiritual development. I say they are methods to build spiritual muscle, and the basis for creativity. While sitting in contemplation one day, and during a space of no thought, an idea germinated in my mind. A way of usingContinue reading “Spiritual Exercise”
Personal Responsibility
The ego will reach into the darkest corners of your mind in hopes of pulling you into unconsciousness. Know that whatever comes to the surface is not yours and has nothing to do with your true self. So many thoughts have been absorbed by your mind that you could never be bound to all ofContinue reading “Personal Responsibility”
Mistakes Will Be Made
Being able to admit when the ego has taken over is a very important part of spiritual practice. One needs to be honest, but not brutally honest. There’s no need to condemn yourself or others for making mistakes. It is possible to move through the mistakes the way we move through emotional pain. You simplyContinue reading “Mistakes Will Be Made”
True Connection
It seems to be the way of humans to make something up when encountered with a person they don’t know very well. This is a part of human nature, which has little to do with your true self. But does the unknown become less scary when you attach a label to it? Perhaps this whyContinue reading “True Connection”
Be Shapeless
A master and a beginner share some of the same characteristics. Proof of this can be observed in the fields of painting, music, dance or martial arts. For example, a painter may start by painting specific shapes at the beginning of the learning process to painting something that doesn’t necessarily look like anything in particular.Continue reading “Be Shapeless”
Allow It All
Acceptance of circumstances in your outer world, especially those which you have no power to change, will promote a more fluid evolution within you. An outward flow that is initiated from the inner may also create opportunities which institute positive changes into your life. Even the allowance of the so-called bad things that happen canContinue reading “Allow It All”
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