Where Does True Beauty Lie?
If only we could see beyond the judgements and opinions that separate us, that divide nations, races and ideologies, that create the illusion of "us and them".
If only we could see beyond the judgements and opinions that separate us, that divide nations, races and ideologies, that create the illusion of "us and them".
The question is what result does criticizing leave in its wake? Since criticizing, complaining, and gossiping are anything but solution-oriented, they bring destruction, not solution.
Why do we hand love over so easily to someone who may or may not deserve it? Why do we invest our love in people who do not value it? Is money more precious than love?
We are all capable of refining our seeing and listening so that instead of moving through our day in a state of reactivity, dread, or disappointment, we can remain open, available to something higher.
I've gotten a greater appreciation of how pain--the non-life threatening, localized, physical kind of pain that something like a back spasm causes--can be gateway into the world of moment-to-moment awareness.
Indeed, many of the negativists of the world seem to engage in an insidious game, using their intellect, but not their intelligence, to argue against the potential for positive focus or improvement.
Here we are, the weekend after Thanksgiving. The leftovers are gone, black Friday is past, and everyone can resume normal activities. Does this mean I don't have to be grateful anymore?
One of Dr Michael's themes that I like is that we are all instruments of the divine, put on earth for a definite and glorious purpose.
Accepting failure and embracing change have become buzzwords, clichés in our culture, allowing us to miss the potential of actually looking at failure and change through a new lens.
Financial lack or hardships are a mirror of your unused potential. Rather than perceiving lack as a curse, begin to view it as a sign from the universe that more inner development is called for.
We are ready to believe and follow, giving up freedom for power, justice for security, love for righteousness, allowing culture to become cult.
Many of us run away or hide from our fears because they seem scary, uncomfortable, or embarrassing. We also erroneously think we "shouldn't" have them or that we are somehow "wrong" for feeling scared.
Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again for the same reason: Men have forgotten God.
The underlying premise to the value of holding a positive focus on a positive outcome contains two basic fundamentals: (1) energy follows thought and (2) the universe rewards action, not thought.
Great leaders make it a habit to respond in ways that generate the outcomes they want, even during extremely tough experiences or events seemingly beyond their control.
One day back in the 60s, my father, a high-society interior decorator with clients like the Presidents of Cuba and Haiti, suddenly discovered that he could talk to the dead and heal the sick.
This Thanksgiving, when you think about all the things you're grateful for, don't forget to include the person you've been hanging out with, 24/7, for your entire life.
In Jungian Psychology, your negative state of mind is referred to as 'The Shadow.' This aspect of yourself is why much of your life is the way it is. If not recognized it will create and attract harmful situations in life.
Healing comes from the soul, the interior self. "Grace," Myss says, "is what heals." She's right. The soul calls for particular actions to set the stage for healing:
Deep in a rustic canyon, tucked away in the bedroom of his beautiful glass home, wrapped tightly in a hospice hospital bed, buried behind the damage of another stroke, my father is dying.
It is difficult for some of us to say "God thinks each of us into being" without feeling like we're falling back on childhood Sunday school stories.