Reflections

Optimal Living Resources

Your Soul is a Temple of Grace Jul 20, 2019

When you step into the courtyard of a temple or a beautiful sanctuary, you are transformed. A great peace descends upon you.

You cross a threshold from the mundane into the sacred.

You enter a place of intentional and conscious presence, love,...

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The β€œMe” of The Mind & The True Self Jun 09, 2019

The mind needs a self, an identity, a “me”.

If we don’t awaken the true consciousness of Self, the mind will continue to cobble together a self out of thoughts, beliefs, stories, interpretations, assessments, judgements, opinions...

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GRACE – An Essential Component of Success Jun 06, 2019

Are we all not looking to live this precious life with a bit more grace?

In my work, a significant aspect of the invitation is to live with more grace. 

Yet for many men, the idea of being more grace-full, implies a sense of being weak or...

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Awakening to Truth is an Awakening From Fear May 13, 2019

Waking From the Dream of I

“Once awakened from the dream of separation, the awakened soul can once again celebrate its most divine dance with God.”

Our fears and anxieties are the imaginings of the dreamed self that feels itself...

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Let Go of You and Discover the True You. May 04, 2019

This video is from Satsang, April 28, 2019, a day after my 58th birthday. The aliveness of peace and surrender was flowing with such abundance.

This Satsang is primarily about surrender.

It is about surrendering all our ideas of self…...

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Dark Room Retreat for Ten Days – Hallucinating a Self! Aug 17, 2018

“During my 10 day dark room retreat I noticed myself instinctively ducking around hallucinations that I knew weren’t there,

I made the conscious choice to stop being controlled by my mind’s imaginations.

It was incredibly...

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Ten Day Dark Room Retreat Practicalities Aug 10, 2018
As many of you know, back in May I entered into a 10 day and 11 night dark room retreat.

I have another blog that shares more about the transformative and life changing experience of living in the dark for 10 days, but I...

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Our Narratives Lead Us Away from Truth May 02, 2018

I beg your indulgence to share a morning revelation…

Our narratives lead us away from truth.

I was presented this morning with various challenging story lines through a rapid series of received phone calls and emails.

Disappointing...

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Eternal Presence is Our Authentic Nature. May 02, 2018

My love is more authentic than my hate.

My peace is more authentic than my anger.

My compassion is more authentic than my judgement.

My faith is more authentic than my fear.

Hate is of the conditioned mind. Love is the natural state of being...

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Two Truths May 02, 2018

These days there are really only 2 truths that guide me in navigating life.

And in abiding these 2 core guiding principles, life is so much more graceful, beautiful and alive than I’ve ever known it before.

1) I am not this conditioned...

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