The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person – without possessing the other,…
Category: Self Improvement
It’s the questions not the answers
Once you become conscious of the questions active in the moment, you always get some kind of intuitive direction of what to do, of where to go. You get a hunch about the next step. Always. The only time this will not occur is when you have the wrong question in mind. You see, the…
Our happiness lies in the happiness of other people
Once a group of 50 people was attending a seminar. Suddenly the speaker stopped and decided to do a group activity. He started giving each one a balloon. Each one was asked to write his/her name on it using a marker pen. Then all the balloons were collected and put in another room. Now these…
Remove the labels
I have spent a lot of time thinking about how everything that causes us ups and downs, highs and lows, and good and bad days is because of labels. You have no doubt heard you shouldn’t have expectations. We respond usually by saying yep I know that and I will work on it. Do you…
Einstein’s optical delusion of consciousness
I came across this quote from Albert Einstein while reading today. If I didn’t tell you who said it I bet you would guess maybe someone similar to Buddha or the like. It never ceases to amaze me how across time and the ages so many of the wisest and most respected people all say…
Autobiography In Five Short Chapters
Chapter I I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost… I am hopeless. It isn’t my fault. It takes forever to find a way out. Chapter II I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don’t see…
Don’t stay too long
The following was written by actor and producer Tyler Perry. It’s a great read. I haven’t written in a while so this is a little long, but it’s so worth your time to read. I was in Wyoming recently and I was taking in the beauty of the place. I mean, I love it. As…
The 5th dimension and transition explained
This is a very good video to explain the transition we go through as we grow and learn. The beginning has some interesting facts regarding the past and links between the pyramids. The real take away here is the description of our role. More to point the part (starts at 2:50) on how we see…
All decisions are right
“If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series of…
What will your verse be?
This is Robin Williams reading Walt Whitman from the movie Dead Poets Society. Listen carefully to these words. It’s important to know we are all part of a very large important story. We all have the potential and capability to be an amazing verse.
Love your neighbors as yourself
I don’t need to say much about this video. It says all it needs to on it’s own. Watch it here
Change your words, change your world
It is so important to be careful of what we say as much as what we do. Our actions and mindset will follow what we say even if we don’t realize it. This video is a great example of that. See it here
The fire of anger
The Buddha taught that the fire of anger can burn up everything we have done to bring happiness to ourselves and others. There is not one of us who has not sownseeds of anger in one’s heart, and if those seeds are watered, they will grow rapidly and choke us and those around us.
Hands of Change
Hands of Change Theres many types of warriors. The Rebellious Warrior that kicks & shouts with a voice that burns away the old under an inevitable itching thunder of change. But by the Seeds of the anew theres a Silent Warrior. The one who sits within the focus of hundred staring lions. Who`s presence will…
Shed the Mask
None of us are 100% who we are 100% of the time. From faking a smile when we’ve had a really horrible day, to pretending to share with someone when we have ulterior motives, our masks are always hiding one thing: The truth. Ego prevents us from living our truth. It will convince us that…