There is a Beauty Within You #12: Paradise Wasn't Lost, It Was Abandoned
We are ready to believe and follow, giving up freedom for power, justice for security, love for righteousness, allowing culture to become cult.
We are ready to believe and follow, giving up freedom for power, justice for security, love for righteousness, allowing culture to become cult.
Natasha Dern | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
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.
Natasha Dern | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
In society, we are taught from a young age to grow up and be the perfect woman. We are expected to do it all and if we can't do it all, there is something wrong with us.
Bob Lingvall | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living
Self-awareness is a very mysterious phenomenon. How is it that matter can be self-aware? Is matter somehow creating you and me?
B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living
My grandmother was a wise woman. She would tell me, "Live each day, one at a time." When I asked her how else you could live, she would take a sip from the flask under her apron and shrug her shoulders.
Bob Lingvall | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living
Immersed in the most personal of personal loves, we are a point of awareness in an ocean of compassionate love; a butterfly on the back of a whale preparing to dive.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living
One of my Secrets of Adulthood (cribbed from Niels Bohr) is "The opposite of a great truth is also true." So whenever I'm very convinced that something is true, I ask myself, "Is the opposite also true?"
Bob Lingvall | Posted 10.22.2009 | Living
Mom became like the sweetness of the chocolates she would eat. The dementia her sculptor, releasing the angel within, chiseling away memories, opinions, and beliefs until only her gentle presence remained.
Bob Lingvall | Posted 10.15.2009 | Living
The death of a loved one, and in a special way a parent, opens up space for self-reflection. Death asks, "Are you living a good life?" Dementia tries to help us answer.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living
One thing I've discovered from doing my happiness project is - no surprise - it's easy to make a resolution, but it's not always easy to keep a resolution.
Bob Lingvall | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living
You are not the idea or image in your head others can try to distort with their criticisms and complaints. You are a point of silent awareness whose nature appears as peace, bliss, and compassion.
Bob Lingvall | Posted 11.22.2009 | Living
Where is this self that demands so much time and attention, fixing and cajoling, encouraging and pampering?
Bob Lingvall | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living
Let's begin the work of reducing our attachment to the idea of "I" by engaging in experiences of awareness using our spiritual sculpting tools of silence, service, inquiry and intention.
Paula Forman and Jeff Johnson | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living
The idea is to open yourself to experiences you have avoided in the past. You will see different things and meet different people and have different things to say.
Tom Matlack | Posted 09.07.2009 | Living
"What religion are you?" my 13 year-old son Seamus asked me last night. His mother and I have been divorced since he was six months old. He's grown up a strict Catholic. I was born a Quaker.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 08.23.2009 | Living
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the problem of "drift" - the decision you make by not deciding, or by making a decision that unleashes consequences for...
Soren Gordhamer | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media
Many people see Twitter as a democratizing tool that will radically change how people share and receive information online. Others see it as the epitome of self-promotion run amok.
Soren Gordhamer | Posted 08.06.2009 | Living
Buddha would encourage us to use everything, including Twitter, not to distract ourselves from what is important, but to remember it and to do our work on this earth impeccably.
Maddisen K. Krown | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living
We sometimes project seemingly offensive or undesired qualities onto others to remind ourselves of something we are lacking or of something else we'd rather become.
James M. Lynch | Posted 07.18.2009 | Living
Write out the story of you as you are and don't be afraid to complain a bit. Think about it as a narrator at the beginning of story bringing the audience up to speed so that we can begin the movie.
Steve Posner | Posted 05.03.2009 | Entertainment
Four decades after their Himalayan sojourn, the surviving Beatles' public return to Maharishi was easy because his teachings had never left them.
Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 02.06.2009 | Living
Every day when I mounted my motorcycle I knew it might be my last, and when I got home safely I breathed an enormous sigh of relief that I had lived another day.
Michelle Renee | Posted 09.27.2008 | Living
Since our actions are based on our attitude towards any given situation, attitude must be considered one of the key ingredients for success, not just in business but in recovery, relationships and life in general.
Steve Posner | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics
Why was Obama waxing patriotic during his foreign trip instead of touting a universal spirituality that removes the need to make cultural and political distinctions?
Michelle Renee | Posted 07.20.2008 | Living
Somewhere we lose sight of our wholeness and of our holiness. We begin to look in the outer world for something to fill the void that is gaping open i...
Bob Lingvall | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living