HOW TO FIND POWER IN TIMES OF DARKNESS
Is it enough to see the darkness and then turn away completely and just spread Love and Joy? Two critical questions that came in related to a recent Facebook post are: “Is it enough to see the darkness and then turn away completely, offering it no fear, no anger, and so on.? Because many people want to walk only that path. Is the solution then to just spread joy and love?” Another equally important question was, “Could you give me ...
TIRED OF BEING PREY TO YOUR EMOTIONS?
HERE ARE 5 STEPS TO A NEW LIFE For a long time scientists believed your emotions are already a part of your cerebral make-up at birth, that they’re already intrinsic to your brain’s structure, — but they aren’t! They’re constructed through your continuing responses to life experiences. You have more authority over regulating your emotional reality than you might believe. Emotions are not built into your brain; you cultivate them as your means for reacting to difficult or ...
THE FIVE ACTS TO FREEDOM
Most of our contemporary sciences are finally catching up to what the ancient Eastern mystics have been declaring from time immemorial. Everything begins in silence, exists only for a brief time, and then slips back into the silent source from which it came. What appears to be real essentially hides what truly is real. And, all that appears in life is fundamentally rooted in consciousness. Thousands of years ago the ancient scientists, the seers, discovered that there are five intrinsic ...
THE PATH OF THE SWAN
The hearth fire was particularly friendly and comforting this morning, crackling with occasional sparks that sent micro-meteors of light shooting across its burnt brick backdrop. I was sitting in silent leisure while contemplating the rippled textures of the sea as the rain fell in softly layered veils across a slate cast sky. My eyes suddenly caught an unpredicted glimmer of something, something white gold moving across the distant contrasts of the grey. It was ignited into expression under a brief ...
BAUMAITRI — EARTH’S FRIENDS
For this world, and for yourself, learn to listen from silence, For that delicate whisper that reveals your true reason for being In 1912, the environmental philosopher John Muir wrote, “When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with the stars, all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe might appear as an endless storm of beauty.” Very long ago, we miraculously appeared here on this ...
BEING AUTHENTIC
In being authentic, you become an unassuming presence, like a wildflower simply allowing life’s splendor to arise glowingly, without applying any defensiveness or effort to display your intrinsic beauty. The flower’s loveliness rests in its faithful innocence. In this humble unpretentious way of being, life becomes so very easy; you merely yield receptively to the illumining allure of your inner sun. Slipping without effort into that inmost honesty so that transcendental light is then allowed to rise up and nourish ...