There are some friendships that evolve over time and others that end with hardly any time passing at all. Trust your first impressions of people; trust who you feel compelled to be when around them, and what parts of you are not welcome in the shared space. Pay close attention to the balance of efforts…
There are times on your journey into self when you’re going to feel very alone. You’re going to feel like you’ve drawn the short straw and why, oh why, can’t you be less complicated? Why can’t you be like the sheep you see daily, who have not experienced the awakenings or downloads of…
I’ve been part of a few conversations in the last year or so that have centred around intrusive thoughts. People have asked me whether I believe it’s a spiritual issue, if I think it’s inner demons that can be eradicated with the right approach, or if these troublesome thoughts are common to us all in…
There are multiple entry points into a life that consciously follows a spiritual path. For some, the route is one of enthusiasm and expectation, hearts so full with positivity that communion with higher planes of existence is the only means of release. For others it’s the extremities of trauma that will crack them open.…
Instead of viewing patterns as unchanging reactions that have us careening from one disaster to the next, it’s helpful to see them as multi-faceted parts of ourselves. Ones that are in constant vibration, willing either to be left on course or interrupted. Imagine, if you will, yourself as the grand ballroom in which various parts…
Where did we learn, that it is necessary to compose ourselves, to pull together the framework of a calm self that others are expecting to see? If we aim to have honest hearts, what stops us from speaking truer sentences, from stating our desires more accurately? Give me a minute, to repress everything I…
There is too much emphasis, in this realm, that is placed on certainty. Everyone wants to be sure they are doing the right thing; they want to be sure they are making the right decisions, that they have covered all possible scenarios of outcome. And even once they have used logic, emotion and intuition to…
There’s a key piece of information you should have been taught as a young boy; a fact that once adopted, can vastly change the course of your relationship to the entire world around you. This is where I want to begin. I want to start not with a denial of your right to ask…
I had an interesting experience today. I met with a man whom I had come to know through a mutual friend; I’ll call her Lucy for the sake of this story. I knew very little about the history of their friendship but was intrigued as to how they met. What I unexpectedly found out was…
One of the biggest insults | crimes | untruths leaked into the human race is the illusion of separation. The belief that we are separate from each other to various and solid degrees; gender, skin, emotion, thought. These useful and convenient layers we use to identify ourselves will make life more manageable, only until we…