“Ask and it is given”, “knock and the door will be opened.” These are phrases and thoughts we may have learned during our early years from biblical sources. But what happens when we ask, or we knock, and before we can be answered, or before the door is opened we walk away. We do not […]
One of the things we share in our experience is the fruitless need to “do” or to “be”. I say fruitless because we begin as fully formed, fully IN-powered beings. When we attempt to justify ourselves or define ourselves through what we do, where we live, who our family is, how we practice our spirituality,
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So, do you? Do you have a rabbit in your life? In this case a rabbit is a goal, a dream, a vision you are chasing. When I take my grand dog out for a walk in the cool of a Southern California evening there are sometimes dozens if not hundreds of rabbits along our
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Full disclosure: recently someone I love and respect posted a comment about me having failed at something. That set me to thinking about what failure looks like; here is what I came up with. 1) One might fail if they let others dictate what the best path for them might be and allow their dreams to
There is no doubt in my mind you have recognized some “mistake” in your life you have vowed never to repeat, but then, kabam, here it is again, same mistake. You wonder “did I learn nothing the last time? What kind of fool am I for repeating that mistake?” Well, good news, you probably did
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Popeye, right? We are who we are, we do what we do ,we think the way we think and we like what we like because of every experience we have ever had. Doesn’t matter if we thought of that experience as negative, or positive, doesn’t matter if it was painful or joyful; every experience we
I mean the kind of “caught-up” where the events of everyday life become the driving factor in how we experience our days. This is all too easy to do: bills become due, unanticipated expenses pop-up, relationships take uncomfortable turns, weather events, even politics and events far removed from what we know of as our day to
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Integrity is a word I hear coming out of my mouth very often. I hear it more often in my own head as I ask myself “Am I standing in my integrity about this?”. Have you ever thought what integrity is, let alone what integrity is in your life? We certainly cannot insist others live up to
I know some of you have been reading these posts and thinking “sure, that is great in concept, but in the real world, that is not how things work”. I understand, I really do because it has not been so long ago that I too believed there were two realities; what things could be, and
