The natural mind wants all the facts aligned before resting in peace. But the peace I am after does not require the storm to stop before it knows that all is well.
Sometimes our fearful and limited mind perceives and interprets situations we face as being ‘world ending’ or ‘soul crushing’! Despite our best efforts, there seems no way out and no silver linning in the cloud. Depression and anxiety can feel like this too. The darkness, the pain and the anquish is real. But there can […]
9 January 2023At some point in our journey, we all encounter a reality check. Your life, provision, source, and substance do not come from the world you perceive through your five senses. For some, it’s a quiet nudge or a niggling question: ‘Surely there’s more to life than this?’ For others, it comes as a full-blown, life-altering […]
4 May 2024 If they truly love and care for you, your happiness will be more important to them than your conformity to their preferences and expectations. Stop living for the approval of those whose primary interest is not your happiness and bliss. Recognize that they value your conformitymore than your happiness.That is not love or care;it […]
12 February 2024As soon as the mind perceives a change — a shift in the weather, a turn in the road — transient peace evaporates.
— from “True Peace”The ego cannot be reformed. It can only be understood — and then, gently, denied. Not through suppression. Through recognition. Through no longer treating its voice as the final word.
I have come to see the futility of arguments and debate. Beauty is unveiled in silence, not in the multitude of words. Truth is known — unspoken, in the heart.
Miracles, not magic. Grace, not works. Spirit, not might. Three anchors for a life lived from the inside out.
What if I am exactly who I am meant to be? What if I am doing exactly what I am meant to do? All stress, all striving, stems from a single source: the failure to believe the statements above.
We have been taught to fix our eyes on the end. The goal. The destination. The outcome. The arrival. We measure our lives by what we achieve, what we accumulate, what we finally become. The end is the thing, we are told. Everything else is merely the road to get there. But what if the […]
There is a growing consensus in contemplative and philosophical circles that Consciousness is the ground of all reality — the ultimate, the all, the One. It is a compelling framework. And it is almost right. Almost. Consciousness is real. Profoundly real. It is the intelligent substance in which all things appear — the field of […]
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