Either it serves us, or, by worshiping it, we end up serving it. When we become slavishly devoted to the dictates of our rational mind, we abdicate our higher, intuitive faculties, relinquish our self-mastery and lose our freedom to inquire, to challenge and to create. Under the direction of our higher consciousness, however, our rational […]
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“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that crushed it.” – Mark Twain
My pain is not Who I am. It’s just an experience I’m having. My joy is not Who I am. It’s just another experience I’m having. I prefer joy, but then who am I? In gratitude I may merge with the Infinite and still be me.
Who says they’re in opposition? After all, at their extremes they absolutely converge, don’t they? (e.g. Nazism and Communism). ‘Right-wingers’ and ‘left-wingers’ need to embrace and harmonize instead of discrediting each other. The healthy Right-winger stands uncompromisingly firm on Truth. The healthy Left-winger lives life with deep caring and compassion. Our spiritual evolution requires of […]
Listen to my interview on ChaiFM radio (28 May 2014). It was broadcast during the seventh and final week of the Counting of the Sephirah in the Jewish calendar and focuses on the element of Malchut (Majesty) within the mystical Tree Of Life described in the wisdom of the Kabbalah. Click to listen: The Sephirah of […]
The deepest meaning of Chanukah is not that we transform the world by bringing light into the darkness. We transform ourselves by seeing the Light that is within the darkness. Suddenly the world is different.
This is the beautiful Chinese character for ‘Mindfulness’. The roof-like part at the top means ‘now’ or ‘this’ – in other words ‘presence’. The bottom portion means ‘heart’. This tells us that the seat of consciousness is not in the head, rather it’s in the heart! Isn’t it true that we mistake ‘thought’ for consciousness? […]
Here’s more on the role of consciousness in the experience of pain and suffering. Dr Elisha Goldstein, in this illuminating extract from an interview on Psychotherapy Networker, describes Jon Kabat-Zinn’s groundbreaking discovery of using Mindfulness to relieve chronic pain. Click her to listen (duration: 1:42)
I’ve learned that underneath my neurotic behaviors lie unconscious purposes – usually to avoid some fear that I’m also unconscious of having. And it’s all the product of my unchecked mind. My healing starts with focusing first on the discomfort I feel in my body and expressing that to myself. When I choose not to […]