… we are who others know us as. In many strange ways, our relationships define us. But is that who we really are?
Read MoreIf you but knew of your neighbor’s need, how could your feast of plenty sustain your joyous ways? And yet this is the nightmare that haunts your nights and days.
Read More… perhaps romance is a fake version of that solution that mostly promises what it seldom delivers.
Read MoreSometimes the best thing we can do for our difficult relationship is to take care of ourselves and become more peaceful.
Read More… we could make sure the people in our life feel welcome there. How can you tell? Can you laugh with them? When was the last time you laughed together?
Read MoreIsolating in our mental cocoon after we fight can feel familiar and safe. Ever since we first experienced the false safety of isolation, either by going there on our own volition or by the condemnation of an authority figure, we have learned of this strange place in our mind.
Read MoreRelationships can be the most rewarding experience in life because they are the root of all spiritual growth.
Read MoreInjustice is simply another idea that God is not real, that life is misery, and that you are separated, alone, and doomed to suffer and die.
What about Joy?
Read MoreOften the thorny pain felt in the center of the abdomen is a reminder of a primordial memory of a separated state of dual mind. It is felt there because it is a beacon to guide your return to your authentic self. It can move up to the lungs and heart area which feels like shortness of breath or a heartache and can even move to the head and show up as grief or tears. This sadness is a commentary on the separated life, a disjointed experience, a loneliness sad and void of any resolution.
Read MoreLove poetry, prayer, and falling in love all have one thing in common, and that is willingness to understand. We have to grow up to become lovers. Love relationships are the highest form of the art of relationship and require the same specialization as any of the other fine arts do. It takes work to be in a love relationship, but the rewards can be grand.
Read MoreWhen you stop looking for the extraordinary, the ordinary becomes extraordinary.
Read MoreFreedom is the middle name of love.
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