A reader asked me what is the best way to let go of extra weight that was put on due to the ego’s fear and need for protection several years ago. Here are my thoughts that I shared with her:
This is an all too common reflex of the ego, which is in its essence, an affirmation [...]
Ten thousand hours. No I’m not talking about how long it took to drive home from Asheville the Sunday after Thanksgiving, although the traffic was pretty slow on part of the route.
But last weekend my wife Maggie and I did go to Asheville. And after a big lunch at an Indian restaurant with the artist [...]
No, I haven’t dropped off the face of the planet. Life has been pulling at me from many directions. Between the election, major home renovations, taking Photoshop CS3 courses, preparing for a photo exhibit, plus travel and website design work, I have been busy.
“Yes we can” is the new clarion call. Nothing can mobilize the dormant and pent-up energy within us than an affirming belief that we are unlimited in our potential, that we are not isolated and separate, but part of a beautiful wholeness that by its nature, includes everyone and everything.
Joseph Campbell once said that [...]
Today, October 15 is blog action day on the environment.
One degree Fahrenheit seems so little yet it means so much in regards to global warming. If we can increase our effectiveness as human beings we can also rise up to meet the challenge of saving Mother Earth. We have to reduce Earth’s average surface temperature one degree [...]
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 [...]
No matter what creative work I’m engaged in, I have found this advice from Leonardo da Vinci to be imperative:
“Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of [...]
Unlimited potential is our birthright. For we are sons and daughters of the infinite and our true essence is consciousness. Our only limitation can come from our thinking.
Look at Helen Keller. She was as wild as any animal in the Amazon rainforest before Anne Sullivan was able to help her make the association of [...]
When we live life more than skin deep, with all of our heart, beautiful things happen. Years and years ago, in Cincinnati, Ohio, I was the only white musician in what was otherwise a 10 piece black band. And we played at nightclubs that had all black clientele. But the fact that I was white [...]
Effortless mastery in holistic personal development means to become that principle which you are developing in yourself. It means much more than having an understanding of love–it means to become love. It means to go beyond understanding poise and to actually become poise. It’s one thing to understand the importance of living in the [...]
How do we incorporate creativity and consciousness into our daily life? By being truly alive. It seems to me that to be human is to be creative. Any other approach to life, such as living mechanically, seems alien to me.
When I sit down to write articles for this website, I often start without a [...]
There is a scene in the movie Forest Gump when the mentally retarded Forrest is in basic training with the U.S. Army:
Drill Sergeant: Gump! What’s your sole purpose in this army?
Forrest Gump: To do whatever you tell me, drill sergeant!
Drill Sergeant: God damn it, Gump! You’re a goddamned genius! This is the most outstanding [...]