Feeling Inadequate

ross bishop Life Experiences, The Ego June 10, 2018November 12, 2020albatross, collapse, efforting, Ego, fear, punishment, unworthy 0 Comment

In school you may have read Coleridge’s, “The Rhyme of The Ancient Mariner.” It is a poem about a mariner who, in his arrogance, killed an albatross that was believed to have brought his ship and shipmates good fortune. Being a superstitious lot, the mariner’s mates made him wear the stinking carcass of the albatross around his neckRead more

Being Angry

Ross Bishop Life Experiences June 9, 2018July 10, 2018boilng over, collapse, emotional wounds, false anger, fear, rage, reacting, wounds 0 Comment

Do you get upset easily? Do other people set you off? Do you get angry, explosively so, at your partner? Worse yet, are you unremittingly harsh on yourself? What about other drivers? Or, conversely, are you withdrawn and totally timid? Do you live in abject fear of being hurt if you speak your mind? A certain amount ofRead more

The Myth of American Equality
On paper, America was founded on the myth of equality, but in practice that has never been the case. […]
The 2020 Holidays
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Surrender II
This business of life is not about becoming something different than you are. It is about accepting the truth about your specialness. And that means letting go of your beliefs of unworthiness - accepting the truth of who you are. It is the resolution of that seeming conflict that will eventually bring you to discard what you have come to believe and accept the truth about yourself. […]
Compassion
You are here to participate in “Compassion School.” It isn’t that you need to learn compassion. Compassion is integral to who you are, it is your nature. What you need to learn is that it is safe to live in that space. […]
The Four Horsemen
Some people view our present spate of problems as the harbinger of The Four Horsemen predicted by St. John in Revelations. Whether or not that is true, each of these crises are serious. They have consequences that are already raising serious hell with the foundations of our culture and if we do not give them their due, the results will be catastrophic. […]