Are You Becoming What You Despise
How To Speak Our Truth “I cannot stand it anymore! These people are just plain mean. They misbehave, they are not listening, and they just don’t care about my ideas.” Ralph and I were discussing his current work situation. He had recently taken a job in New York, and at the time, he was convinced […]
How To Get Love, Peace and Understanding
A giant stumbling block to forgiveness is the need to control. We think we know how things should be, and we quickly judge our relationships. Most of our judgment revolves around a set of rules. But who makes the rules? If we begin to drill down on the rules, there is truly little substantiation for them. […]
Breaking Up With My Girlfriend
My phone rang at 5:15 pm. “Lauri?!” the voice said coupled with panicked and heavy breathing. “Lauri, it’s your mother,” as though I didn’t recognize her. “Yes, mom, I know,” I reassuringly responded. Little else was said. Punctuated by my mother’s struggle to breathe and her confusion, we engaged briefly. At the end of our brief […]
How To Live Spiritually in A Crazy World
As we deepen our spiritual practice, we begin to practice the following:
Spiritual Surrender: Learning The Art of Letting Go
How Can We be “Spiritual” and Live Our Everyday Lives? Living in the world while waking up – What does that mean? For many of us, it means Spiritual Surrender or surrendering to a current situation. How can we be in a world that responds, reacts, and listens to a message that is not loving […]
Forgetting the Past Reveals Present Love
Who creates the suffering in our lives? When we choose to walk in pain, we know discouragement and suffering will follow. There are no short cuts to circumvent our pain; we must look it in the eye and ask, “what is this pain good for?”As simple as that may seem, very few of us will […]
Healing Crisis: What Are They Good For?
Healing Crisis: What Are They Good For? Ah yes, the healing crisis. I am going to preface this piece with the following. This discussion of healing will fascinate some, outrage others and totally confuse the rest. A big component of spiritual healing involves physical healing. They are inseparable. Chances are if we are physically ill, […]
