Mastering Emotions, Wisdom Of The Heart
I love koan-like statements like this one by the mystic poet and saint Kabir, because they help me to keep questioning the outrageous ideas that my analytical mind comes up with to “solve” the questions of my heart and soul. Like the woman in this hilarious video called “It’s Not About The Nail”, my mind is sometimes like a guy trying to solve a problem that cannot be solved.
Conscious Relationships, Mastering Emotions, Wisdom Of The Heart
We are taught to believe in ourselves if we want to “make something of ourselves,” and yet, here we have the magnificent Martha Graham suggesting that “you don’t even have to believe in yourself or your work….”, in order to allow this vitality to be translated through us into action.
Mastering Emotions, Wisdom Of The Heart
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” Winston Churchill Right now, we see leaders on both sides lacking courage, not listening deeply to the hearts of the people they lead. In it’s place is the...
Mastering Emotions, The Power of Compassion, Wisdom Of The Heart
“If you put your heart into everything you do, you will recreate yourself.” Lailah Gifty Akita I believe we came to earth to give it all we have—-to bring the fullness of who we are to our lives, whatever that means for each of us. Children do that, full out,...
Connecting with the Divine/Spirit, Conscious Relationships, Mastering Emotions, The Power Of Love, Wisdom Of The Heart
“She became a warrior far superior to any epic hero. She became a giant on her knees. With a sword in one hand she battled the enemies of death and disease, and with her other hand stretched toward heaven she kept beseeching God’s help and His mercy.”...
Living Your Purpose, Mastering Emotions, The Power of Compassion, The Power Of Love, Wisdom Of The Heart
There is something primal about the New Year, where millions of humans celebrate a day of beginning again…a day of reset, another chance!
I am not referring to New Year’s resolutions of which, according to a survey by time management experts FranklinCovey, a full 35 percent are broken before the end of January of that year.
Connecting with the Divine/Spirit, Wisdom Of The Heart
“Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery. And though we spend most of our time on the surface in the daily details of ordinary existence, most of us hunger to connect to this space within, to break through to bliss, to be swept away into...
Conscious Relationships, The Power of Compassion, Wisdom Of The Heart
Love, in all its countless forms, stretches and expands you into a brave new world, a higher dimension of consciousness, beyond conflict and differences. Psychological theorist Eric Fromm says that, “Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence”
Conscious Relationships, The Power Of Love, Wisdom Of The Heart
Your Relationship Is Your Child: I tell the couples I work with that their relationship is really their child, and that the well-being of that child depends on how they both take care of it. When things aren’t positive between them, I have them see their relationship as a fussy child who needs to be tended to. Possibly more attention, maybe better boundaries and more structure, less work, and more fun.
Loveseed, Spiritual Activism, The Power of Compassion, Wisdom Of The Heart
“Love has a powerful way of removing the mask we all insist on wearing.” Jessy Whether life today is more difficult than it was a generation ago or not, something has happened to our expectations. One of the dark sides of our lightning-speed digital world is that...
