Journeying into the Present
It’s time! Just as there is a time when a child matures into adulthood and is ready to move out into the world and begin his or her own life, so too comes a time when the maturing soul becomes aware enough of the massive ego influence in the mind and is ready to move…
Words matter. Unconscious words matter. Conscious words matter. Intentional words matter. Casual words matter. Thoughts you think no-one can hear matter. Words direct energy. Energy flows. A mass of thoughts by a mass of people can flow a mass of energy. Just look at the recent global protests. Look too at the fear and panic…
Dr. Zach Bush in a Facebook post this morning speaks of the deep, mind-shattering pain running through the world in the wake of both the COVID-19 and the George Floyd murder by police. Dr. Bush very eloquently speaks of the suffering of so many and the inadequacy so many of us feel in the face…
Into this mystery called Life. Duality and the deep inner knowing of who I AM has never been as clear to me as during this escalating world pandemic crisis. I have watched myself, along with so many others, get drawn into the news of the moment, into the shock and grief and too often –…
We’re always contributing in some form or another. The question is do we know what we are contributing? And how and where and why? When I am rooted in Presence, centered in peace, coming from a place of inner knowing and faith, I am contributing those qualities to the world – they are what I…
The question isn’t what is my dance? Or how do I dance? The question is can I let go of ego-mind thinking enough to allow the dancer I AM to flow through every atom of this body in abandoned bliss, so creating and expressing the purpose of this lifetime? I first heard this concept of…
It’s a kind of old fashioned word, faith, and it is perhaps one of the most powerful components of awakening to who we really are. Escaping the torture of the monkey mind is a part of the process of awakening – and often it isn’t until we are in a place of intense suffering that…
What is mine to bring into form for 2020? A great question to begin this new year and new decade. The usual way we begin a new year is with resolutions. My question is – what is the source of those resolutions? Do they come from what you see as not working from the previous…
There is a power within each of us; within every organ, every cell, every molecule, every atom of every life form on this planet. This power has been called many things throughout time and its name matters not. Those who are aware of this power know the depth and breadth of that power to be…
Be it health, wealth, relationship, work or any other of life’s experiences and challenges. Some journeys are more obvious, learning to deal with the death of a loved one, facing a serious illness or other catastrophic situations like a hurricane or a divorce. Other journeys which we may not think of as journeys are some…
They ripple through me – powerful vibrations of the frequencies of relief, joy and freedom. I see their box clearly from my perch on a new moon hanging in the inky blackness of an infinite void of foreverness, my trusty cocker spaniel companion by my side. This is my retreat, looking out into this all-powerful…
The moon is new, its thin curve slicing into the darkness. My cocker spaniel buddy, Cinco, sits on this curve alongside me looking out into the infinite darkness of nothingness that stretches out into eternity. I sit there, legs swinging below the edge of the moon, my arm around the warmth of the wee body…
Life Itself flowing abundantly through this body it has created, IS ALL THINGS. Nothing can be added and nothing can be subtracted. Evolution is what happens when the soul moves by desire. Some teachings say to be desireless – I like to think of desire not as something to want, such as an ego desire…
Judgment begins with naming things. First we name and then we assign values. The world then becomes how things are, have been and should be, according to mind. Eckhart Tolle talks of taking a walk in nature, looking at the trees and flowers and practicing not naming them – just seeing them, experiencing them. The…
When we are attached – to thinking, people, places, situations, things, health, money, status, to name just a few attachments – we end up believing that our happiness depends on the having of those things and the not-having becomes a cause of suffering and unhappiness. (Or the reverse). There are 3 tenets of Buddhism that when…
Have you ever thought of your hands as an entry point into the present moment? Recently reading Russel Williams in Not I, Not Other than I: The Life and Teachings of Russell Williams, brought this truth to my conscious awareness. He is answering a question about evolving gradually towards a spiritual state as opposed to…
Trying to make something happen originates in the mind; allowing something to happen originates in Presence, in the Present Moment – the Universe expressing its magnificence through you. In trying to make something happen, there’s an element of needing to control events, situations and people. There may be intense effort, frustration when things don’t turn…
Remember when you were a kid and on a car trip that seemed to take forever, and you just couldn’t wait to be there? Remember that feeling of frustration and impatience? Are we there yet? was the question of the moment. The now, in that car, mile after boring mile peeling away under those trusty…
Eastern philosophy and teachings describe the endless chatter of the mind as the monkey mind – it just won’t get off your back. The non-stop commentary can become very tiresome as you start to become more aware of the fact you aren’t your mind – which is simply an aspect of your personality built from…
Are you willing to stop mid-flight in the busyness of your days and create space for Presence / Life Itself to flow, even just for a moment or two, a minute or two? It takes time and commitment to free yourself from the noisy mind that controls our day-to-day living through our learned brain tracks.…