Today, September 30, 2007, is the 800th birthday of Rumi, the immortal poet and mystic, who realized in his lifetime the infinity of truth that he longed for. He is now the number one selling poet in the English language. He was born, as we all are, as a finite drop. But before he [...]
When you follow the promptings of inspiration, life steps up to a new rate of energy.
What business is it of mine if what I am inspired to do seems impossible? When the voice of inspiration speaks within me, my responsibility is in the action. The results are not my concern. Does a private in the [...]
I went to my library the other day and checked out three books that caught my eye. The books were Complete Works of St. Teresa, The Practice of Zen, and Tales from the Land of the Sufis. Why would I read these books, you might ask. They help keep my heart open and my mind [...]
Is your life imprisoned by patterns?
Patterns of thought are so pervasive that we can become blind to their impact on our lives. There are patterns of worry, of anxiety, of laziness, of shyness, of rashness, of anger, etc. The list is a long one. We become accustomed to these patterns and they become part of [...]
I was blown away the other day by the honesty and integrity of Joe Vitale in his book Zero Limits (which he wrote with Dr. Hew Len). Here is the passage that really grabbed my attention:
“One thing bothered me about my work with Dr. Hew Len. As I kept growing and having insights, I worried [...]
Yesterday I was asked in the comments section of my post, Habits — Acts of Unconsciousness, if habits can ever support inspiration. The answer is no. Habits are thoughtless and not based on awareness. They have nothing to do with inspiration and the source of inspiration — consciousness.
However, a discipline that is born out of [...]
My title, Respond or React is a response to Steve Pavlina’s post today which contrasted the difference between reacting and responding. His analogy, using his martial arts class, is a good beginning. But I want to take this to a deeper dimension.
Reactions are a product of the limited ego-mind. It has nothing to do with [...]
Habits are acts of unconsciousness. They might seem like second nature, but they are obstacles to conscious living. What is needed is awareness, perception, and consciousness; in short a connection to our source of being. This is the source of inspiration. And where inspiration flows, the habitual doesn’t exist.
Some people take pride in cultivating good [...]
I am still feeling the reverberations from reading Zero Limits. I can’t get it out of my head, and that is a good thing. For the message of the book is one of love and peace. The book details a method of getting to the Zero State, a state of consciousness that is free of [...]
The last few days I have been reading through Zero Limits, the latest book by Joe Vitale, written with Ihaleakala Hew Len, PhD. The seed that brought this book into fruition was Joe Vitale hearing the story of Dr. Len curing a whole hospital ward of the criminally insane in Hawaii without [...]
Holistic personal development places much emphasis on connecting to the source of being in conjunction with any personal development work. Why is this, you wonder? Because wholeness, which comes from your source of being, is critical for knowing what your purpose is. It saves you from just following the dictates of the ego mind, which [...]
Recently blogger Priscilla Palmer of www.priscillapalmer.com started a list of personal development bloggers, to enhance everyone’s experience in the personal development blogosphere. The idea is for everyone on the list to add to it the personal development blogs they visit. This is the up-to-date list as of today. No longer will you be at a [...]
I often hear people ask, “Why is God so cruel?” And it’s easy to understand why people might think this, especially when they see tragedy befall their loved ones. We live in a world where people are killing people everyday, in wars, in crime, and in accidents. Millions others are dying everyday from disease. And [...]
We are all prisoners to some degree as we are all bound and limited by false identities. Some of these identities allow more freedom than others, but except for the few souls on the planet who have transcended the mind (which is the creator of all identities), then we are limited by these identities.
When people [...]