Make no mistake about it, everything we do in this lifetime is about learning. We learn to walk, talk, socialize, make a living and countless lessons in-between. The choice of learning Without getting into the esoteric considerations of life, we are always at choice as to what we learn. How many times have you learned …
The most powerful thing about demonizing others is that we create a scapegoat for our own fears. The most disempowering thing about having a scapegoat is we no longer have to face our own shortcomings. Learning to improve ourselves With a scapegoat, or someone to blame for what makes us uncomfortable, we by-pass an essential …
What is the limit of your ability? This is one of the areas where we fall short almost every day. We underestimate just how much we can learn, do and feel. Excuses The true issue is not our ability to learn, to grow or to love, the issue is we simply don’t want to …
So many people who go through self improvement courses, or even life changing experiences stop after one or two rounds. It is like saying “I did the work, I’m done now.” This is a big mistake. Self improvement does not end when the retreat ends. Digging a well Liken spiritual development to a well. You …
One of the most difficult things we have to do, especially as parents, is watch someone we love learn a lesson. We want those we love to have only positive experiences as they go through life, so we want to meddle. We want to ease their way, but sometimes the best thing we can do …
There is nothing wrong with being wrong. There is simply no way we can know everything, every time. What we do this moment is the best we know how to do at this moment. Given the same set of choices at another moment in time we might choose to do things differently, but there ya …
Greed is bad. We have been taught to think that all our lives, but what is greed to me may not be greed to you. Greed is a judgement call at best. It is what you believe. For some people greed is having more money than they do. Many people consider it greedy if another …
I wish I were the person my dog thinks I am. It doesn’t matter if this morning I left without a proper good-bye, he is happy to see me in the evening. If the food I served him was not up to par, he doesn’t seem to care. When I yell at him for what …
The Unfiltered Heart comes from learning to understand that everyone who comes to your attention, everyone who comes through your life, is there for a purpose. That purpose is to be part of you becoming what you have set as your goal. They are there in answer to your prayers, dreams, hopes and every thought …
One of the really wonderful things about finding more candles on my birthday cake is that every day I learn something, that is I learn something if I listen. The flip side of this continual learning is sometimes I discover that along the way I have told someone something I believed to be true, then …
