You probably think you have the freedom to make any choice when making decisions. You don’t. Free choice happens when you are faced with all possible options before you decide. However, the way our personalities are formed prevents us from the luxury of considering all options. Freedom is when we lay in front of us …
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Among the many celebrations June brings, we have Father’s Day. So today, I will talk about fathers. A father’s archetypal role is that of a provider of strength and security. The pressure is on, the moment a man becomes a father. The responsibility is quite demanding. Often this responsibility is taken up to such an …
May your Mother’s Day be celebrated with spring’s colorful flowers, and may the cards you give or receive be filled with gratitude and heartfelt wishes. This article is about mothering, in all its forms. Mothers. Everyone has one. Often where there is more than one child in the family, it is curiously surprising to hear …
April, with its unfolding of petals and young sprouts so vegetative growth may take place, always reminds me of a similar process in us humans: the unfolding of wise inner direction through intuition for our personal growth to take place. When we can utilize our intuition, we receive corrective guidance enabling decision-making without regrets. Regret …
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The seasons provide wisdom for reaching inner peace and keep repeating this wisdom year after year. But do we lift our heads up to notice, to get the message? Or, do we stay with head down, eyes shut, carrying on our usual complaining: “It is too cold,” “It is too hot,” “The leaves this year …
It’s a commonly held belief that love, and relationships go together, or that they must go together. Well, they don’t! They would have gone together if we were humans without personalities. But the reality is that personalities inevitably interrupt the flow of love between two people. Why? How? Having a personality means we carry judgments …
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Why Awareness Sucks Awareness, by itself, does not do life or enable expansion. It can increase pain: –Anger When we become aware how we could have avoided painful situations in the past, we often become angry at ourselves because we didn’t act differently. We become angry with ourselves because “we should have known better”. …
In attempting to use our newfound awareness to enable us to act in a more evolved manner, we immediately come face to face with the first obstacle: our personality. Every attempt to put new awareness to work, is met with this powerful force dragging us back to “old, familiar ways”. Yes, our personality is a …
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The second major obstacle in transcending awareness into action is timing. Yes, our own, individual, unique timing can be a major obstacle in transcending awareness into practice. When the “timing is right”, we do not have to move a finger, we do not have to put any effort at all. Something we have been …
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