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
Prayer
We accept many things without thinking about them. Take the idea of prayer. We view prayer as some sort of a conversation with God. In this view, prayer is like making an international toll-free call. But, for very important reasons a conversation with God is unlike any other, and that changes the nature of the thing. As aRead more
Your Thoughts
You are probably familiar with the work of Dr. Masaru Emoto, the Japanese scientist who found that water reacts to our thoughts and emotions. Emoto would expose water to a thought and then take a picture of a single ice crystal of that water. And as I say, he learned that the water reacted to the thought,Read more
When Something Happens
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’tRead more
Gratitude I
I’ve been thinking recently about something the Buddha said: “Neither fire or wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.” We build statues and memorials to our heroes and heroic events, and yet all of them will someday turn to dust. Great monuments like The Acropolis or The Parthenon even the pyramids of Egypt, stand as stark remindersRead more