Part 4 of a video series about the importance of loving yourself…
Video blog post: Loving yourself, part 3
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Here’s part 3 of a short video series on the subject of self love. Part three is actually a series within a series…
Video blog post: Loving yourself, part 1
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This is part one of a short series of videos I’m making, on the topic of loving yourself. Here goes…
[Continue reading...]The opportunity of mercy, part 1
Mercy is the deliberate refusal to exercise power over another. No matter what, at some moment, even briefly, you will find yourself in a position of power. With someone at your… well… mercy. Such that your response to his clearly non-constructive behavior will influence the impact of that behavior on his life. It won’t always [...]
[Continue reading...]The pain of pretense
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The following is an excerpt from The Five Keys to Fullness of Life, now available for Kindle! I hope you like it. Thanks! From The Five Keys to Fullness of Life… Those of us who fear making mistakes also fear being ourselves. We don’t want to get it wrong. All those possibilities we feel, [...]
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To relate to your pain you have to love yourself, part 5
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Pain is an effort on the part of your full self to wake you up to the obstacles that keep it from emerging. But upon waking, you must deal with the condition of your own house. Moves to reorganize your context will create conflict with your whole world. Your house will shake at the foundations [...]
[Continue reading...]To relate to your pain you have to love yourself, part 4
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Our tendency to cling to the agencies of pain comes from our fear of lack. Of loss. And to an underlying, even unconscious, sense of separation from the rest of everything. From each other. From the world. From God. From ourselves. It’s that separation from self on which the whole thing rests. When you deny [...]
[Continue reading...]To relate to your pain you have to love yourself, part 3
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Although we tend to recoil from pain, we also tend to cling to its causes. It’s weird. And it perpetuates pain. It causes a state of lock down. We hate the recurring pain in our lives, but we do not change the root causes. In fact we repeat them, sometimes on purpose. We don’t change [...]
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