Life is so intelligently organized and self-organizing that it is only the habit of un-awareness that causes us to think and behave as if we could improve on its design, or ignore or resist it! Yet, when we yield to it – the experience of enlightenment – living becomes effortless. We’ve got out ot the way and allowed Life to live us! Magnificently. Joyously. Limitlessly.
Build a House for men and birds. Sit with them and play music. For a day, for just one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace, my friend, into your beautiful eyes. Hafez I wonder if you have noticed how difficult it is to maintain a conversation that is purely joyous, one that […]
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Image by Taylor Smith The most significant relationship we will ever have is the relationship with ourself Contrary to what we might assume, the most significant relationship we ever have is the relationship we have with ourselves. Our suffering is the result of not acknowledging this and therefore cultivating a good relationship with ourselves.
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Image by Tuğba Kobal Yılmaz The only thing worse than being blind is having sight with no vision Helen Keller Some time ago, I was working with someone who had come to me for mentoring. This young man was troubled by his father’s insistence that he see a psychiatrist or a psychologist. ‘I don’t feel I
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What wisdom and insight into truth would your future self want your present self to know and live by? What would you accept and what would you reject or resist? You may be familiar with the exercise of speaking to your 10-, 15- or 20-year-old self. But how about hearing from your future self?
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Let me ask you a question: Where is your past? Consider it carefully. Where is your past? What is your answer? When you really think about it, the past only ever exists as memory, memory which can be aroused. And when does memory get aroused if not in the…present? If I asked you to recall
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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is ‘thank you’, that would be enough. MEISTER ECKHART Do this. Sit still. In a quiet place. Take a few deep breaths. Tell your racing mind: For the next 2 minutes, I am just going to sit here and say Thank
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A MENTORING PROGRAM THAT TAKES YOU THROUGH THE 5 STEPS OF FORGIVENESS Forgiveness is something many of us struggle with. We often find ourselves in turmoil thinking we should forgive but not really wanting to forgive. Or wanting to forgive but not knowing how. We may have tried to forgive but may find that we
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I’ve often said that mindfulness is the practice of Noticing everything that arises in our field of awareness and Noticing this without judgement, attachment or aversion. I’ve also said that this also means that we notice any judgements, attachments or aversions and resistance, all of which are certain to arise during our practice! When I
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The world that we perceive with our physical senses and experience through the filters of our conditioned mind is a world of dualism. What does that mean? It’s the world of this or that, black or white, good or bad, me or you… Everything is held as separate from, and different to, everything else. Dualism.
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There is a basic truth that I understand and constantly remind myself of: It is only the (illusion of a) separated self that gives rise to any kind of suffering or dis-ease. In Buddhism, this ‘illusion of the separated self’ is part of a concept known as ‘fundamental ignorance’. It refers to our ignorance of the