Our bodies are not meat cars we’re driving around in, they are integral to our embodied life and therefore interrelated to our soul, our emotions, and our minds. They don’t fight against our best life, they work to help us achieve it. This doesn’t mean they become Jesus and carry us so there is only…
I’m a bit under the weather today so my thoughts are less than profound. However, as this video by Ze Frank my just explain the meaning of everything I’m hoping that things will get better. At least it made me laugh. Enjoy: True Facts about Morgan Freeman
Easier said than done. As adults we pick up or accept baggage through all kinds of relationships. Friends, co-workers, management, groups and associations, hell even the book club can be a mine field of baggage just waiting for us to claim it. But as adults we can figure that out, work through it, get rid…
Stop. When you come into contact with grief, stop. Stop whatever you are doing, stop the chatter inside your head, stop the automatic pilot that is guiding you through your day. Just stop. Once you’ve stopped, direct your attention to the source of the grief. To the husband trying valiantly to hold his family together…
“Actions speak louder than words.” At some point in our lives we’ve all heard this. It comes up in all kinds of contexts. It shows up most pointedly in politics but it’s a common place issue between people who have authority and/or power and those who are affected by authority and/or power. Because it’s not…
My people have been warriors since our first memory of existence. Because of this we have an understanding of what it does not only to the person, but to the community when a warrior goes into battle. Being a warrior is a sacrifice. It means not only leaving behind everyone and everything you care about,…
Ever experience a time when you’re doing something and you realize you’ve forgotten about time all together? Have you found you have a smile on your face that’s been there for a while now and you are just totally enthralled in what you are doing? That’s how I define ‘joy’. Most people think of ‘joy’…
“Speak your truth” isn’t a new concept. It’s ancient, but it became popular in the 60’s and 70’s and now is so common that it’s almost too trite for a FaceBook meme. It’s become so trite that it almost has no meaning. Everyone things they know what that means and yet we seem to mean…
“While we can control how we respond to what happens to us, we can’t control everything that happens to us. We are all too interconnected, both with each other and our environment–life is too wonderfully complex–for a statement like ‘you create your own reality’ to be simply true. A belief that I control or create…
“I don’t care what you believe. Just Believe IT.” – Shepherd Book “Serenity” It doesn’t matter to me what religion you practice, what spirituality you espouse, what philosophy you are working through. I find them all interesting in one way or another and all of them have wisdom to share. As long as you’re not…