No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth. Mathew 6: 24 I am curious about my relationship with the Masters of Truth and Deception. I might refer to them […]
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There are only two things you have to do in life. You have to live until you die. The rest you make up. Source Unknown When I was a high school teacher, I would tell my students: Don’t live down to other people’s expectations of you. What I didn’t realize then and what I
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I hate it when I plan a conversation with someone in my head and they don’t follow the damn script so-relatable.tumblr.com Not so long ago, I happened to observe a situation where a carer of a 14-year old boy was at her wit’s end. The teenager had been in a dark space for some time and had
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NOTE: This is Part 1 of a 2 – Part Post. In Part 2, I shall look at what we truly seek in a relationship and what we mistakenly believe we want Let me begin with a few questions and please do answer them before you continue reading: 1. What would an *easy* relationship be
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Let’s look at this objectively: What assumptions do we live by? Let me suggest a few: We have to earn a living We have to work in jobs that we don’t necessarily enjoy or are passionate about We have to constantly upgrade our possessions By upgrading our possessions, we are upgrading our lives There is
Get off the frickin’ treadmill called ‘Normal’ already! Read More »
Instead of waiting for this moment or hour or day to pass, or dreading the next moment or hour or day, why not raise your level of consciousness to ‘effortless and enlightened’ right now? And why not maintain it throughout the day? You don’t need any fancy equipment or tranquil environment. Well, actually you do
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OSensei (Founder of Aikido) instructing. Image from the book Enlightenment through Aikido NOTE The following, and indeed all posts in this category, reflect my personal impressions and understandings. They are not intended to represent the views of my instructors, something which I am neither qualified nor given permission to do :). Harmonious ki is in
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*I wrote this a few years ago while I was doing a course with Jean Houston (a super human being!) My early rolls I started training in Aikido about a year ago. Prior to that, I hadn’t even heard the word! Not long before I started, I’d been considering taking up some form of martial art.
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Coincidence is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see – Carl Jung Tuesday 8 October 2013, around 9pm. Lucy is taking a break from her work on her website. From her sofa, she surveys her immediate surroundings which is mostly filled with books. She notices among them, as she
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Synchronicity is the coming together of inner and outer events in a way that cannot be explained by cause and effect and that is meaningful to the observer – Carl Jung We’ve all experienced it – these ‘acausal’ conjunctions of events that we’ve either considered portentous or brusquely dismissed as ‘mere coincidence’. You think
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