Creating and maintaining an altar can be a simple and effective way of shifting our focus from an outer world of doing to an inner world of being.
What Spiritual Awakening is Not
To learn more about how the soul and personality increasingly work together, read Spiritual Transformation, It's a Team Effort
Can We Take A Break From Guilt?
Let’s play a game. It’ll be an experiment. For one day don’t do anything out of a sense of guilt. See what happens. If your life doesn’t fall apart with your unleashed freedom – try extending the experiment to a couple days.
Befriending Death
Befriending Death Death is a big subject. For some, it is a taboo topic and has a locked door. For others, like me, it is a compelling door to step through and explore. [...]
Letting Go Little By Little
I’m imagining my body being in sync with this spring season, warming up and effortlessly melting away the excess that has accumulated over the winter months - letting go little by little – and then letting go some more.
Spiritual Transformation – It’s a Team Effort
A team that doesn't work well together successfully isn't a money team. It doesn't mean that they are not fun, exciting, or lively. But, it usually means that they are not very effective. If the players don't work together to get the ball into the goal, or the puck into the net, or the football over the line they, are not considered a successful team. Similarly, the Soul can't use a personality whose components don't function as a team. Considering ourselves in this way is a helpful analogy for thinking about the process of spiritual awakening and personality integration.
Five Steps Toward Real Forgiveness in Your Relationship
No one is perfect, and the art of forgiveness is a very normal part of any relationship, even a conscious one. Forgiveness is also something that can’t just be conceptually understood. Remember the early days in school when your teacher would make you say you’re sorry and makeup? Standing there waiting until you said those magic words. You’d say them reluctantly without meaning it just so you could get on with your recess. The same sort of phenomena still happens in adulthood.