Partnering with our unconscious mind is largely a matter of making ourselves available to it in a routine and regular way, simply by being aware of the presence of “the other” within. Carl Jung referred to the unconscious as “The ten million year old person within.” That “person” is not primarily verbal but communicates viaContinue reading “December 07-A, 2022”
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December 06-B, 2022
The Practice is emptiness, stillness, silence, sitting, waiting, watching, listening, looking, for something to stir to life, arise, emerge, occur, fall into place, as realization, comprehension, understanding, hearing, seeing, knowing, calling us to rise and do what needs to be done, when, where and how it needs to be done, as often as it needsContinue reading “December 06-B, 2022”
December 06-A, 2022
Sentience is a quality of perception, of being able to perceive something, on a level beyond sight and sound– a “sixth-sense” type of awareness. We know more than we know how we know. We know more than we know that we know. There is too much noise, complexity, movement and drama about our life thanContinue reading “December 06-A, 2022”
December 05-B, 2022
Hope is having enough money to pay the right bills– which is assisted by having the discipline to incur the right bills and not the wrong ones. And it is also a matter of being lucky. Savvy people position themselves to be lucky, and while they trust their luck, they never push it. Living toContinue reading “December 05-B, 2022”
December 05-A, 2022
Unconscious and conscious have to get together, singing the same song, walking the same path, living in conjunction with one another, one mind, one body. For conscious to live at odds with unconscious is to be cut off from the wellspring of life and to wander without guidance and direction through the wasteland of discontentContinue reading “December 05-A, 2022”
December 04-C, 2022
Opposites and contraries, dichotomies and contradictions, form the essence of life. It is our place to bring unity from duality, to harmonize/balance Yin and Yang, to make the peace by taking two and forming one. Our work starts with conscious and unconscious. We are two becoming one. How well we pull this off tells theContinue reading “December 04-C, 2022”
December 04-B, 2022
The Bible is great for its supply of metaphors for the spiritual life, but it falls apart in that they are all presented as facts to be believed. They are symbols to be embraced and explored. And have to be reclaimed as such, received as such, resurrected as such. In that way, we bring themContinue reading “December 04-B, 2022”
December 04-A, 2022
Sages and gurus have such a boring life. We could not follow the Dalai Lama through his day. He never goes to Wal Mart. He orders nothing from Amazon. Yet he makes on over enlightenment. Enlightenment is not very entertaining. Yet, enlightened people smile a lot. And say very little. It isn’t a life styleContinue reading “December 04-A, 2022”
December 03-B, 2022
Growing up is changing our mind– particularly about what is important. Growing up is changing the way we think. Changing the way we look at things. Changing the way we see things– seeing everything as though for the first time all of the time. Growing up is waking up some more again every day. TheContinue reading “December 03-B, 2022”
December 03-A, 2022
This is a culture that will make you crazy. It will split you away from yourself and offer you diversions/distractions/denial in place of providing the ways and means to a life that is sustainable and vibrant, grounded in direction, meaning and hope. This is a culture devoid of direction, meaning and hope. All it hasContinue reading “December 03-A, 2022”
December 02-C, 2022
“Why did this happen to me?” “Why does this always happen to me?” “Why do things like this happen?” We ask these questions as though if “these things” have a cause or a reason, we could say, “Oh, okay,” and live happily ever after. In possession of the best reason in all the world, weContinue reading “December 02-C, 2022”
December 02-B, 2022
Doing things differently changes everything. Changing our mind about what is important changes everything. What is as it needs to be in your life? What holds it in place? How does making something better somewhere else mess with what is just right as it is? How can you make things better without making them worse?Continue reading “December 02-B, 2022”
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