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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The Evolution of the Conscious Mind
God had a quandary. She wanted to bring us to an enlightened state but She could not just give it to us (we have free will). So, She had to develop the means for us to get it on our own. She had to create a process (a middle step) between ignorance and enlightenment that would facilitate our transition into enlightenment. […]
HOLIDAY STRESS
It’s a common theme this time of year. We rush around shopping and going to parties, visiting family, etc. so we’re doing a lot, and there is a physical drain. And of course, it is supposed be a joyous and happy time! But it’s not just running the marathon of parties, etc. that is getting to you. The stress you are feeling is coming straight from your inner kid. […]
The Costs Of War
Annapolis grad and nuclear submarine commander, former President Jimmy Carter famously said, “The United States is the most warlike nation in the history of the world.” We don’t like to see ourselves cast in this light, but the truth is that America, more than any other nation on earth, is the great promoter of violence. […]
Gratitude
Gratitude changes the lens through which you view life. It pulls you out of the morass of your daily ego struggles and reminds you of how much you are loveland supported. It also helps protect you from the destructive influences of envy, resentment, greed and bitterness. […]
What Are You Worth? Part II – God’s View
This will be hard for some of you to hear, but everyone gets the life they need in order to advance their spiritual development. If you didn’t have a great deal of work to do, you could choose a life of minimal struggle. Others needed to do more work, so they chose lives that offered more conflict. And then there are those who, for whatever reason, chose to eat the whole whale in one sitting. […]