Journeying into the Present
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…
Around the dining room table one evening amidst a group of friends in deep and meaningful discussion, I heard myself say, well, the world I see is merely a projection of me. The impression these words had on my psyche was instant – my granddaughter wrote them out for me and they hang to this…
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…
How likes and dislikes color our days, our decisions and our peace of mind. I travel a lot throughout the USA in a motor home and have done so for many years. It’s a 34 ft (10.5 m) motor home and I tow a car – so while it’s not a big rig as we…
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…
Brain tracks run our lives. They support us in living a passionate and fulfilled life, they cause to live a life of ‘quiet desperation’ – or somewhere in the middle. What IS a brain track and why do I need to be aware of or even care about knowing what my brain tracks are? Most…
An enormous depth in my understanding and awareness of the Present Moment has been opening up recently for me. Michael Singer‘s online course “Living From a Place of Surrender” is responsible for this opening. I absolutely love his description of how life from the big bang on has invested 35.8 billion years in the making…
Today I heard a friend describe how she wasn’t deserving of a special love relationship in her life and had decided therefore that being in such a relationship wasn’t her ‘lesson’. My immediate RE-action was to say that was her ego mind talking, and what did ‘who she really was’ have to say about that.…
It’s funny where inspiration comes from. Here I am having committed to an 8 week boot camp with a program called Bright Line Eating, which is about healing addictions to flour and sugar and creating a healthy, thin and free lifestyle and I find myself diving into new depths of understanding how integrity works or…
I have become a rat catcher! It’s absolutely awesome. Who would have thought rat catching could be such fun? Recently I was engrossed in a project and I made a mistake. I suddenly heard in my head “You ALWAYS do that. What is the matter with you? Dummy!” “Gottcha!” I yelled. Luckily there was only…
It’s long been said – as you think so you are. Your thoughts are magnetic, and they attract more and more of where you place the majority of your thinking. Just look around you to assess where your thinking is focused. I read a good article recently about how racing car drivers NEVER look at…
Planet Earth is a dimension of duality. Cold/hot, good/bad, light/dark, despot/saint, lazy/motivated, anxious/calm, angry/serene, night/day, right/wrong, and on and on. The opposites are endless and we tend to live our lives in these opposites, which are often aspects of the personality, the mind we have developed throughout our lives. Many of us are on an…
…when I am rooted in ‘Being’. I heard this from Deepak Chopra when I was listening to a talk this morning. He actually said “If you are happy for a reason, then that is another form of misery, because that reason can be taken away from you tomorrow”. Any reason for happiness that is ‘out…
It felt like the worst hangover I could ever have experienced, waking up the next morning to an America with a president-elect called Donald Trump. How could this be, in a world that I had seen as basically good and decent and honorable? How could hate, racism, misogyny, injustice and small mindedness win the presidency…