Do you need to change your personality? This might feel like a harsh question, almost an accusation of something being wrong with who you are. But don't dismiss it too quickly. Join me on this thought journey to see if it resonates with you: "The freedom the Buddha envisioned does not come from jettisoning imprisoning … Continue reading Do you need to change your personality?
Take a moment to create in your mind the image of a majestic mountain towering over the landscape around it. See it standing resolute against the ever-changing elements. This mountain, battered yet unyielding, represents an essential truth about ourselves: we possess an eternal constant within, capable of holding all of life's experiences without becoming a … Continue reading I am the eternal constant that can hold it all, without being victim to any of it.
We often walk through life glancing past the faces around us, each individual a complex universe unto themselves. Yet, what if we shifted our perspective? What if we saw in each person, not a stranger, but a reflection of our own inherent wholeness? This is the journey we embark on today, one that begins within … Continue reading The universe within, leads to the universe without.
For this week ahead my biggest wish for you is: That you simply do your best! "Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." - Oprah Winfrey "The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. "Just do the best you … Continue reading This is how you consistently do your best!
Words can be beautiful tools, painting vibrant landscapes of imagination and sharing the whispers of the heart. Yet, some truths dance just beyond their grasp, like moonlight on water, shimmering and elusive. Lao Tzu, the ancient philosopher, understood this dance intimately. In the last part of Lao Tzu's life, he was old, and believed he … Continue reading Trying to describe the indescribable…
Making the world a better place is a given if... we all make ourselves better humans... “If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give … Continue reading Your own transformation is a gift to the world!
Today's message from Lao Tzu is about how hard we try to live really good lives, create good societies, and teach our kids good values. We have a sense of the principles we need to rely, insist and agree on in order to foster cooperation not only in our close relationships, but at scale. Some … Continue reading Why…? Because we’d love to live in a world where we can let our guard down and love the humans around us.
Not being present always means that we are out of alignment. Out of alignment with what? - Out of alignment with reality, with what IS. When we're not being present, when we're not facing this moment exactly how it is, then some (or a lot) of our energy is being spent on a wish that … Continue reading How much energy will you waste banging on the door that used to be open?
Imagine a chest overflowing with the priceless gems of knowledge, and wisdom. It sits within you, ready to be opened, yet remains locked and inaccessible. The key to this treasure lies not in external force, but in the gentle, consistent practice of self-discovery. This is the essence of meditation, a journey of becoming intimately familiar … Continue reading Practice is the key that unlocks the chest.
I really love Lao Tzu's analogies involving water as a very descriptive illustration of how in the battle between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but by perseverance. How do we tap into this source of strength? "The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in … Continue reading How do we embody this gentleness that is so saturated with relentless power?
Every Monday morning's meditation guides us to look at the week ahead and establish some clarity around what it is we want to create in the coming week. Today we ask the question,"what is it that motivates your creating - FEAR or FREEDOM?" When you create from FEAR, you're creating to avoid consequences. Creating because, … Continue reading What are you running towards?
Imagine life as a giant radio dial, buzzing with frequencies. Each station offers a unique experience, a specific lens through which you perceive the world. But unlike a physical dial, you have the power to choose your vibration – to tune into a consciousness that shapes your reality in remarkable ways. Think about it. When … Continue reading The level of consciousness you tune-in to, determines your experience of the world.
Are you missing out on the beauty of today by wishing for tomorrow's happiness? We all get caught up in the whirlwind of life, constantly chasing the next big thing, the next milestone. It sometimes amazes me the extent to which we can be absent from our own lives, because we’re always wishing to be … Continue reading Learn to process life as it happens.
Like all biological creatures, a big part of what keeps us alive are the patterns created in our subconscious and embedded in our bodies, ready to fire in an instant to steer us toward safety and away from danger. Having these patterns is what makes us similar to our animal friends, but it is our … Continue reading Experience that love is your natural state!
Have you ever felt a gnawing emptiness, a void no amount of achievement or pleasure seems to fill? Perhaps, it's not the things you're chasing, but the connection you're missing. Today's meditation whispers a profound truth: within you lies a timeless essence, your soul, yearning for reconnection. There is a part of you that has … Continue reading Your soul’s desires compel you to grow.
"Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad." - Debbie Ford "Take an honest look at yourself!" There’s a lot to unpack here, this statement could be loaded with a lot of judgement. Have these words ever been spoken … Continue reading Take an honest look at yourself!
Our greatest sense of dis-ease, often comes from expecting ourselves to "be" only one way, like always "be"-ing happy or always "be"-ing positive - and then being very disappointed with ourselves when we find ourselves "being" in ways we don't want to "be". But being human means that we do experience our "selves" in a … Continue reading Finding true freedom from your fears.
Do you ever feel like the world keeps throwing you curveballs while you're giving it everything you’ve got? Friend, I hear you. But what if the true key to unlocking the life you desire lies not in external outcomes, but in how you see and treat yourself? Our teacher for this week is Debbie Ford, … Continue reading I know you’re doing your best, and I’m here to tell you that it’s enough.
Imagine for a moment the scene of commuting to and from work every day in a noisy train car. Looking around you, you can see how the train is crammed with anxieties, doubts, and the echoes of others' opinions - this is a screenshot of the reality of what we’re surrounded by day after day. … Continue reading Almost as if we’ve been carrying with us a bunch of noisy passengers all along…
You are beautifully designed in all perfection. Everything you think and feel is exactly as it should be for the life experiences you have had. Your body and mind is responding to your environment in the way it was designed to, by figuring out a way to cope, a way to survive. You do however … Continue reading You can choose between being trapped by the way your mind has become programmed, or transcending it.
Have you ever felt like love is something like a flickering candle, struggling to stay lit in the wind? It might be because the story we’ve been told about love is that it is something (or someone) outside of ourselves that we need to find and deeply connect with. But what if true love wasn't … Continue reading Unlock a wellspring of love.
Do you have the ability to hold both? Are you able to tell both stories?... what does this mean? Let's ask Krishnamurti to explain: "Freedom from the desire for an answer, is essential to the understanding of the problem." - Jiddu Krishnamurti "The highest form of human intelligence, is to observe yourself without judgement." - … Continue reading Practice seeing both sides without choosing either.
When we talk about fear, or listen to talks about overcoming fear, and hear that everything we've ever wanted is on the other side of fear - it often sounds like the ways to overcome our fears are things like jumping out of an airplane or diving with sharks! But let's be real, most of … Continue reading Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
"Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion." - Jiddu Krishnamurti "This is my secret, I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good … Continue reading This is my secret, I don’t mind what happens.
Our teacher for this week is Juddu Krishnamurthi, and here are a few thoughts from him to ponder as you look at your week ahead - "In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth … Continue reading When the mind is not caught in the net of certainty, it is in a state of discovery.
Do you create the space to spend time in your own silence? And what benefit does spending time in stillness have? Can this benefit be described? Our teacher for this week has been Eckhart Tolle, and we'll have a look at how he describes what it is we find in silence: “Space and silence are … Continue reading The infinitely creative womb of all existence.
A message from today's meditation: I think it's helpful to share quite a long piece from Eckhart Tolle in today's email. Well, I guess it’s not that long really, it’s still less than a 5 min read, and extremely helpful. But just before I post that in here, this is what I'd like you to … Continue reading The most decisive event in your life is when you discover you are not your thoughts or emotions.
Eckhart Tolle speaks about love in a very simple way, cutting right through the cultural baggage that we have collected around the word love throughout human history. He demonstrates that we tend to "feel" love from either one of these two places - Ego or Soul. “To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, … Continue reading What I have found in SELF, I am finding EVERYWHERE!
Our teacher this week is Eckhart Tolle, but to drive his message home today, I’ve included a thought from Alan Watts as well: "Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed." - Eckhart Tolle "You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the … Continue reading “The wisdom to know the difference.”
Know yourself as the "being" beneath the thoughts... Take a moment and really feel this statement... You have thoughts, feelings, emotions... is that who you really are? Or is there a being on a deeper level with the ability to observe all these chemical reactions without getting caught up in them? “To know yourself as … Continue reading Know yourself as the “being” beneath the thoughts…
