Live By Your Most Powerful Word In 2022

I have had a long slumber, in the dark of Portland winter since flying out from Virginia last week. My grandson Jack and I made snow angels, watched movies, colored and glued stuff and played games and had a snow ball fight where aliens invaded. As you can see, my...

We Must Make Meaning Of Our Lives

After a long week of seeing clients, last night, I found myself saying these words over and over: we must make meaning of our lives. Beside the fact that I have taken to speaking for a collective “we” even in my private thoughts, possibly a result of my stage of life, what I found myself saying made sense—-to me—after sitting with one person after the other who could not make meaning of their lives.

Gather The People To Create The Tipping

In our digital world, we are constantly being bombarded with new ideas and trends and even conspiracy theories that seek to take hold in the culture at large.  Gladwell did in-depth research spanning a number of different fields, industries, and scholarly disciplines, and identified three key factors that each play a role in determining whether a particular trend will “tip” into wide-scale popularity. Not so ironically, he calls these three variables, or “rules of epidemics”  the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, and the Power of Context.

What Is Your True Offering?

To want to know what this so that we can offer it to the world creates in us a deep longing, at times anxiety, and possibly a sense of being lost, that often leads us to seek guidance, to pray, and to reserve a very sacred part of us to receive this knowing.  Others can share their journey, or their wisdom, but the holy process of being devoted to discovering what you are here to give—to live as your True offering—-is very personal, and takes place in the innermost chambers of a person’s heart.

Desire, Decision and Dedication

A vision arises out of deep desire.  Desire has its roots the word de sidere which means “from the stars,” and indeed it has been proven that “we are stardust,” as Joni Mitchell famously sang in “Woodstock” Everything we are and everything in the universe and on Earth originated from stardust, and it continually floats through us even today. It directly connects us to the universe, rebuilding our bodies over and again over our lifetimes.

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