Are you completely free to make a choice? If you would have asked me that question a few years ago, even a year ago, I would have said yes in a heartbeat. I was not in a situation where I would have had to deal with negative consequences because I made a certain choice – […]
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The school shooting last week in Florida had me sit and look deeper. I get the call to limit access to guns, especially semi-automatic guns. Yet the question that kept coming up for me was: Will this solve the problem? Dealing with the availability of guns is dealing with the surface issue. It took me […]
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Dr. Dain Heer has a free series of videos called Tour of Consciousness. They are such a contribution to people that I will post the one or the other here on my blog. You can subscribe to the series.
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Recently, some friends and I had a conversation about problems we have. The question was asked: What would be if none of us had a problem? We realized that a) we would not fit in if we didn’t have a problem since most people have problems; b) we would not know what to do if […]
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This seems to be a strange title. How can I be intimate with myself? What if intimacy has nothing to do with sex, with copulation? What if into-me-see is only an aspect of intimacy? What if there are elements to intimacy that one can apply to others as well as oneself? The elements are Honor, […]
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In the last 3 minutes: I read something and suddenly felt like throwing the towel, being done, ready to check out. I ask: Who does this belong to? and it lightens up. Ahhhh, not mine, I’ve picked up someone else’s thoughts! To change it completely, another choice: I lower all my barriers, connect with the […]
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We have our expectations. And yes, we all know and have heard it a hundred times that we should not have any expectations. Still, somehow we do. So how do we deal with a behavior, an event, or a result that is not what we wanted, hoped for or expected? This is something that occurs for […]
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Do you feel gratitude in your life, in your day? Do you wake up feeling grateful to be alive? Gratitude is a tricky thing. We learn that something has to be in place in order to be grateful. From my own experience, I have to say that this is not so. Being grateful is a […]
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What is it that we like so much about polarity? What is our need to have the either – or in our world? I wonder if it is connected to our need for judgment – or is it the other way around? I find myself becoming more and more aware of the polarity in the […]
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