We have all heard it said that "love is the answer." But what if love was the question to which your life is the answer? What if you built your whole life around love? What would have to change in order to do so?
Read MoreRecently, I noticed how often I use the word, "eventually," in my inner talk, usually in some variety of the idea that "eventually, I will get this together." You have an incredible power to use your inner dialogue but you must take control of it or it will, eventually, control you!
Read MoreIn my youth, I went on a quest to find out how people get through potentially devastating situations in life. I learned early on that we all suffer difficulties that could defeat us. What matters is how we respond to them. What personal "tragedy" have you endured? How did you get through it?
Read MoreHow do you respond when life "throws you a curve ball?" How do you deal with unexpected barriers? How do you manage frustration?
Read MoreIn the late 60's through the late 70’s, I went on a quest to find out how people got through potentially devastating situations. During this quest, I formulated 5 core beliefs. Unfortunately, I got caught up in living my life and these beliefs receded into the background to surface again in recent years. Now, as I backtrack over them, I find myself continually fascinated by the beauty and power that they represent and by the promise they offer. This blog post summarizes these beliefs.
Read MoreWord the World in a way that brings you to life and life to you!
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In our everyday encounters with others, whether strangers, acquaintances, friends, or family, we carry on two conversations: one is the everyday talk at the surface; the other is the a deeper sould-to-soul conversation. What mght we besaying to each other onthat deeper level?
I wrote the poem A Day Like Any Other while sitting on my patio in the early monring, listening to the birds. To me they seem to sing with such joy and wonder, as if to say “This is another day, another day like no other.”
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The pandemic has forced many of us to short our attention away from the outer world and thrust into our own inner world. The concepts of achievement and success that drive us in the outer world do not apply in the inner world. This leaves many of us lost, confused, and frightened. Now the we are reduced to the essentials, we have a chance to re-imagine our relationship with ourselves, with life, and therefore, with the world. In other words, it has stripped away some of what came between us and life. What brings you closer to life?
For me, Easter is not a question of faith. It is the acknowledgment of the awakened spirit, a kind of rising up to animate, or re-animate, the inert body, or to restore spirit to the inertia of one's life. And in this time of isolation, sheltered in our homes, we have a chance to re-animate our ives and the world in which we live. What new spirit do you wish to bring to life?
The pandemic calls us to turn inward, to look inside ourselves, to return to the heart and ask ourselves: what is essential in our lives? What do you think the virus is calling you to do?
