Emotions

admin Life Experiences, The Ego June 11, 2018July 10, 2018anger, anxiety, beliefs, feelings, inner child, rage, Truth 0 Comment

I used to have a sign pinned up on my wall that read: “Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us. . . It was all about letting go of everything.” Pema Chödrön Feelings and emotions are similar, but they serve very different purposes. A feelingRead more

Regrets of The Dying

admin Overview, The Spiritual Path June 10, 2018fear, feelings, friends, happiness, love, regret 0 Comment

Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who works in palliative care, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives. As she worked with these people she kept hearing the same themes repeated over and over, and so she gathered their dying epiphanies into a book called The Top Five Regrets of the Dying. What is interesting isRead more

Two Choices

admin Life Experiences June 9, 2018July 10, 2018compassion, Ego, emotioin, externals, feelings, relatioinships, state of mind 0 Comment

Pretend that you are looking into two large rooms. The rooms appear identical – the same people, the same relationships, etc. But appearances can be deceiving. If you look carefully, there are important differences. In Room One, everyone operates from ego, much as in our world today. Every relationship in this room is based upon uncertainty and anxiety: “Will they likeRead more

Principles To Live By

admin The Spiritual Path June 9, 2018June 20, 2018feelings, fullfilment, happiness, hate, love, prefection, spirituality, the now, trust 0 Comment

By Ross Bishop Occasionally I get asked what principles guide my life. I have a number of them, but I had never collected them in one place until now. I suspect that deeply holding any one of these concepts would probably change your life. These are not in any particular order, except the first three. 1. LOVE EVERYTHING. . .Read more

When Something Happens

admin The Spiritual Path June 9, 2018beliefs, compassion, confrontation, feelings, mastery, transparency 0 Comment

OK, something happens – good or bad – it doesn’t matter. In that moment you have a choice – you either hold compassion for the other or dump all over them. Every situation, every moment, presents you with that choice. Notice that I am separating out the content of the event from your feelings about it. You don’t have toRead more

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CRIME and PUNISHMENT. Taking another look at dysfunctional behavior.
Drug addicts, criminals, domestic abusers, school shooters, pedophiles, neo-Nazis, gang members - we treat these behaviors differently without realizing that they are all manifestations - symptoms - of deeply seated pain. Pain that originates from the same source. Realizing that might shift our treatment of these people dramatically. […]
A Life of Potholes
Do you know anyone who doesn’t have troubles? Think about it. Anyone? We accept problems as a part of life, but doesn’t it seem a little odd that everyone has them, that no one gets off scot-free? And when you find anything that affects everyone, you need to start looking beyond the surface for a deeper explanation. […]
Being Loved
By Ross Bishop ’Perhaps the biggest mistake I made in the past was that I believed love […]
Fear and Love
Moving to the God Space means relinquishing the ego. And that means giving up a good deal of what we believe to be true, especially about ourselves. Surrendering to the God Space threatens the foundations we have built our lives on, even though these foundations are patently false. […]
Making Changes
And the one thing that stands out from all the rest is how strongly we resist making the changes that are asked of us. Most people have to get backed into a corner with no other way out, before they will make the changes that The Universe has been asking of them all along. […]