As the story goes, I was walking through the rain on a cold Autumn evening in Oxford. The sky was getting dark; I was wrapped up warm in my new coat. And suddenly and without warning, the search for something more apparently fell away, and with it all separation and loneliness. And with the death …
Change is difficult for all of us. The older we get, the more change we face. All change involves loss, and whenever we lose something, we ache to have it back. Everything I have lost in my life — big things and little things — I’ve wanted back at first. So because we know that …
For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learnt never to underestimate …
In reality, your world is set up so that nothing happens to you, but everything happens for you — for your awakening, for your growth, for your inspiration, for your exploration — even if you forget that, or sometimes cannot see it, or sometimes fall into distraction and despair. When there is no fixed destination, …
“Believe nothing. No matter where you read it, no matter who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” ~ Gautama Buddha You can read thousands of quotes or hundreds of books and they will not match the wisdom and spiritual guidance …
It has been my experience that gifted and talented persons are more likely to experience a type of depression referred to as existential depression. Although an episode of existential depression may be precipitated in anyone by a major loss or the threat of a loss which highlights the transient nature of life, persons of higher …
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Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein is widely considered one of the greatest minds to have ever lived. Through his development of the general theory of relativity he, as Conversations With God, Book 1 puts it, “came closer than any other human — before or since — to discovering, explaining and functionalizing the creative secret of the universe.” …
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Over the years I’ve learned dozens of little tricks and insights for making life more fulfilling. They’ve added up to a significant improvement in the ease and quality of my day-to-day life. But the major breakthroughs have come from a handful of insights that completely rocked my world and redefined reality forever. The world now …
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My dear girl, the day you see I’m getting old, I ask you to please be patient, but most of all, try to understand what I’m going through. If when we talk, I repeat the same thing a thousand times, don’t interrupt to say: ‘You said the same thing a minute ago’… Just listen, please. …
“We live in a world where everything is connected. We can no longer think in terms of us and them when it comes to the consequences of the way we live. Today it’s all about WE.” ~ Gregg Braden The Story of Separation that has guided civilization for thousands of years is no longer serving …
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If we can be quieter, more in the moment with what is actually happening, a world of perception opens up for us based on where we are, not on where we one day hope to be. “Nobody sees a flower, really; it is so small,” said artist Georgia O’Keeffe. “We haven’t time, and to see …
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“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” ~ Mark Twain A saint who was once visiting a river to take a bath found a group of family members on the banks, shouting at each other in anger. …
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Our culture leads people to believe that hair style is a matter of personal preference, that it is a matter of fashion and/or convenience, and that the manner in which people wear their hair is simply a cosmetic issue. Back in the Vietnam war however, an entirely different picture emerged, one that has been carefully …
Long Hair & Intuition: Native American Trackers & The U.S Military Read More »
At the Festival of Peace, in Florianopolis, South Brazil, the journalist and philosopher Lia Diskin related a beautiful and touching story of a tribe in Africa she called Ubuntu. She explained how an anthropologist had been studying the habits and customs of this tribe, and when he finished his work, had to wait for transportation that …
“Our nature is that men will begin their search for fulfillment through the gateway of sexuality while women will be attracted to the romantic door, but our capacity to be truly met by each other results in a magnificent emotional openness from the man and sexual connectedness by the woman.” Who Is Truly More Interested …
Happiness is one aspiration all people share. No one wants to be sad and depressed. We’ve all seen people who are always happy – even amidst agonizing life trials. I’m not saying happy people don’t feel grief, sorrow or sadness; they just don’t let it overtake their life. The following are 21 things happy people …
The wisdom of the Native Americans is vast. To this day, their stories and traditions remain rich with a knowledge that resonates deeply. The powerful understanding they possess — both of themselves as humans, as well as their connection to the earth — stretches back over a unique generational lineage far into antiquity, untouched for millennia …