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.
If you haven’t read my first post on the story of the prodigal son, you can read it here. In that post, I talked about the younger son who had left his father’s house with his inheritance, squandered his time and money but eventually came to his senses and returned to his original home. I did […]
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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society –Jiddu Krishnamurti I saw a tweet today about Scott Morrison’s failure to commend Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, on his handling of the state’s Covid19 response. I shook my head as I thought about how, for much too long, many of our
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When you are actively learning from someone else, you are passively teaching them about yourself – Daryl Davis In recent months, I have kept this book, The Course in Miracles Experiment – A starter kit for rewiring your mind (and therefore the world), by Pam Grout on my desk. I choose a page ‘randomly’ every day as
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I watched a woman being interviewed. She sat in a wheelchair because she was elderly and feeble. She said that she was dead for she had lost her heart. The psychiatrist asked her to place her hand over her breast to feel her heart beating: it must be there if she could feel its beat.
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Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an
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One of my favourite stories or parables (teaching stories) is the story of the Prodigal Son. Let me tell you the story as briefly as I can but before I do, let me warn you that there are a few subplots in this story which I will not be covering here. Instead, I will focus
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Evolution has wired us to look for the one, often unlikely threat that may be lurking in an otherwise non threatening ocean of well being. Think about it. What is it that keeps you awake at night? That gets your stomach churning and your mind racing around the same track a million times over? I’m
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Sometimes I think that this mind-body can be such a clunky piece of equipment, prone to all kinds of breakdown and clumsiness. But that’s only because I haven’t learned to use it efficiently. However, it’s not just because I haven’t learned to use it efficiently. It’s also, and perhaps mainly, because I’ve been taught to use
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Attitude is everything, isn’t it? I can look at something and dread it or I can look at it and honestly think: Hey, this is an opportunity to get to know someone better, to really get curious about them and keep a really open mind about what they can tell me about themselves instead of
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