Reflections
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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, peac...
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 and perceptions.
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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.Â
Yet for many men, the idea of being more grace-full, implies a sense of being weak or e
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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 separate from the o...
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… Completely.  ...
“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 liberating to “see” the ob...
I have another blog that shares more about the transformative and life changing experience of living in the dark for 10 days, but I want to star
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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 circumstances. ...
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 read...
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 and
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