Personal Development

Have you ever yearned to express your purpose, find direction or do something meaningful, yet instead you find yourself stalled, stuck or stopped?

Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!

My own fears were not about the people I loved rejecting me. They were all fears about those outside of my immediate circle of trust and love.... In naming and befriending my fears, their power to confine and define me was deflated.

Once we make the decision to take ourselves off of autopilot and live mindfully and authentically, the possibilities for real connections, peace, ease, calm, love, and joy flourish.

There is nothing we must change in others, nothing to fix, nothing to touch. The mere reflection of our truest state of compassion and love moves mountains.

It is essential to recognize that these family roles are not "the truth," but simply the roles we assume in our relationship to other family members. Typically, there is a sense of self that doesn't match the role, and the individual struggles to reconcile the two.

When we encounter situations that requires patience, can we look at it as an opportunity to be the person we already are?

"Living your values" means placing greater emphasis on and making a greater commitment to activities, experiences, and people that express those values. It also involves creating balance in your life.

This is the profound meaning of discipline: maintaining love, maintaining the hope that every living being will awaken, even in the most difficult or challenging conditions. It's a softening of the heart, a letting go of confusion, of anger, bitterness, and despair.

There's something I know about fear: It sucks. But the other thing I know is that fear is part of being human.

You will be amazed what shifts in your life when you acknowledge and face your fears on purpose.

How many fearful thoughts scroll across your mental Twitter feed each day?

I have come to realize that if real change is going to happen -- if I want real happiness and fulfillment in my life -- I must let go of this familiar, known, comfortable way of being. I must let go of all the things I "know" I can and cannot do.

On my spiritual journey I once believed that I could one day perfect "Tim" into some sort of enlightened being who was always at his best. Now it feels to me that the journey is about embracing all that I am.

It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are "marked" with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.

When we ask our ~ing (inner guide) for help we can create life flow, expand time and accomplish more.

A standard is a level of quality, something that is accepted as a norm, and generally used as a basis for judgment. An expectation is a strong belief that something is going to happen in the future, or a feeling that someone or something is going to achieve something.

As I prepare to move from floor 29 to a new home built for two, I decided to package up cancer -- and seal her in a tight little box, with no room to breathe. And there she can live amongst a sea of discarded memories, in a landfill somewhere far from here.

As we travel through life's phases, we must let go of so much. And I don't think it gets easier with practice. But maybe just accepting that eventually we will have to let go is the secret to living a full life.

Guess what? You have a dark side. Everyone has a dark side. And that dark side is talking to you and filling your head with nasty, mean, dark thoughts on a daily basis. Are you surprised? Most people are.