A Cautionary Tale

You'd have to be blind not to notice it was the largest present under the tree.  He had wrapped it as best he could, but still the bright paper and gaudy bow made it stand out like a flashy hotel on the Vegas Strip compared to the...

This time of year, much of the northern hemisphere grows cold. Often the change in climate makes it easy for our hearts to grow cold too. We contract our bodies to stay warm, add extra layers to insulate ourselves. If we're not mindful, our emotional bodies will mimic our physical...

Another parable (author unknown) landed in my inbox recently, and I feel it's pithy enough to share.  Called "Carrots, Eggs and Coffee," here it is:

Carrots, Eggs and Coffee

A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her....

My last post expressed an unexpected but potent ethereal longing for a return to source -- the place both beyond and from which our known world emanates. Today I'm inspired to express a longing quite the opposite, and hopefully, to inspire it in you.

There are times we all...

There are times when even the most seasoned of travelers can become deeply homesick. Today is one of those days for me.

It doesn't happen often -- I don't trend toward nostalgia and homesickness -- but they have caught me off-guard every now and then when I'm on one of...

Recently this story about a journey crossed my path.  You may have run across it yourself -- it's often read at funeral and memorial services:

The Dragonfly

Once, in a little pond, in the muddy water under the lily pads, there lived a little water beetle in a community of...

My tales from the outer journey continue.  If you didn't catch the first one, check it out here.

I thought after meeting Daniel in the foothills of the Chilean Andes it might be a while before I ran across another wise old man on a mountain.  Little did...

Lately, I've been focused on the inner journey, specifically the path through my own recent evolutionary shift in consciousness and personal growth -- likely one of many such shifts any seeker undergoes in a lifetime.  After moving through that growth cycle this spring, I had an amazing summer, abundant with...

For the past few months I've been writing about my personal journey through the shift in consciousness I see humanity moving through.  Although I think we as a whole are evolving, there are billions of different individual stories illustrating how we're doing so.  While we'll all end up...

So You've Shifted -- Now What?

If you've been through a shift, or if you're still shifting, it can be a wild ride. As I described in my last two posts, at first it's usually not much fun. In fact, that's an understatement: It can feel as if...

Okay, now that I have your attention I'll get right to it.  What could these diverse celebrities possibly share at the moment other than the media spotlight? Plenty, when we look below the surface glitz and shiny bright lights of media coverage.

They are all experiencing very public, highly publicized...

Apologies for leaving you for a few weeks after writing "Welcome to The Shift", the first in a series I'm writing to chronicle my own process of shifting and to reach others moving through what's become known as "The Shift".

To recap, this "Shift" is what I (among...

Please, if you do nothing else as you are shifting, show yourself some love.

Shifting is not for the faint of heart.  It's simple, but it's not easy.  Whether it's Ali Brown of "Secret Millionaire" going from star to stark (and as she admitted on a...

Man is there a lot of shifting going on in April.  The pace has picked up, and for me personally it's becoming a thrilling ride.

At the start of this year I made a conscious decision to move in the direction of my dreams.  I just didn't realize...

2011 is shaping up to be a year of rapid, no-nonsense "shifting into gear."  For many people, including me, we're close to completing the transition through the gears that have defined the past few years.  I don't know about you, but I intend to enter a more stable place of...

I haven't posted as much as I'd like to over the last month, but I won't use conventional excuses like "I've been traveling" or "I've been busy."  While both are true, they're not the main reason.

The main reason for not blogging more often is that I've been shifting.  And...

Intention has been a growing focus in my life this year and is a paramount theme for 2011.  And it's not just me -- the concept of living with intention seems to be popping up all around me, and I say it's about time.  Especially with science catching up to...

While 2010 ended with a whimper for me (and for the most part I was glad to see it go), 2011 is starting off with a bang.  There's "no rest for the wicked" as the saying goes.

Not that I'm wicked (truly, I'm not) but we all have negative habits,...

The truth in life is that we probably have countless brushes with death every day that we never know about.  Just crossing a busy city street or shuttling the kids to school, one careless driver more or less at exactly the right moment and your number could be up.

There's...

After recently reading this post by Empowered Soul Andrea Hess, I've been reflecting on just how prevalent our sense of deservedness figures into getting what we want.  It's as if we feel the need to qualify our desires almost before we can admit having them, and certainly before allowing...