December 6, 2008 – 1:37 pm
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 [...]
October 30, 2008 – 12:44 pm
“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 [...]
August 26, 2008 – 10:07 pm
We are infinite beings. Every one of us, young and old, healthy and sick, rich and poor, are spiritual beings. This is our primary reality. We are not our circumstances. The conditions of our lives, whether we are young or old, healthy or sick, etc., are just temporal experiences. They are not lasting. If they [...]
My friend Carrie asked if I would write on the subject, “Don’t Wait until You’re Great.” It’s an intriguing subject. And though not everybody has designs on being great, I’m sure there are plenty of people who do. And many more who might have such an ambition later. There are millions of people who want [...]
When we withdraw our consciousness from the drama and stimulation of the mundane and illusory aspects of the world, we have the opportunity to enter into a world, that previously, we were unconscious of. It’s the world of the subtle. It is an inner garden of subtle lights, subtle sounds, and subtle scents. It is [...]
In my college days, I was in a band that played at small nightclubs. We had a trumpet player, who sometimes would start out on a solo sounding awful. He’d stop and turn to me, and ask, “Hey Man, what key are we in?” I’d tell him and then everything would be beautiful. In life, [...]
The speech on race by Barack Obama today brought tears to my eyes. It resonated deeply in my heart, filling it with an excitement and hope for new possibilities in the world. I learned later that it had that effect on a wide spectrum of people. I think it is fair to say that in [...]
December 16, 2007 – 11:38 am
There has been much written on the subject of transformation from both the practical and the philosophical perspective: lose weight, look sexy, make money, be more productive, find peace, increase personal magnetism, etc. And while each of these is a goal worthy of achieving, none of them represents the ultimate transformation. Rather, at best, they [...]
November 26, 2007 – 5:23 pm
Here is a classical rags to riches story if I ever heard one. It’s also a story about a man who lost his confidence but persevered to win it back. I became aware of this story today after a friend emailed me a video clip. It was of Paul Potts‘ performance of Puccini’s Nessun Dorma [...]
October 27, 2007 – 1:59 pm
Transformation is the goal of personal development. It is taking a life of limitation and moving it towards the unlimited. This movement from the limited to the unlimited is both a death and a birth. It’s a winter turning into spring. It’s a letting go of the old and worn out ways of life to [...]
October 19, 2007 – 4:42 pm
Are you doing your best? If not, why not? Are you lazy? Why? Too much stress? What can you do about it? Are you inspired? If not, is it possible that you are not pursuing your true purpose in life? Tough questions, but they lead to deep introspection about how we live and think. When [...]
October 11, 2007 – 5:00 pm
The following post was excerpted from “The Science of Greatness” by Wallace D. Wattles. I am sharing it with my readers because of its holistic viewpoint of life, and because I see too many people lose their focus and their joy because of world problems. — G Butler Millions of years ago God worked with very low [...]
October 10, 2007 – 6:10 pm
Greatness is possible for every person because there is Power in every person. There are no exceptions. This power exists not only in every person, but in everything. It is consciousness. Through an understanding of how this power of consciousness operates and continuously expands, man transcends the limitations of life and lives in the realm [...]