Reflections
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Awakening to our true nature requires courage and radical self honesty.
The first thing you will encounter when endeavoring to be more loving, are all the ways that you resist love.
The first thing you will encounter when asked to relax your tho...
Consider this…..
Everything we do that brings us the most pleasure in life has some element of forgetting about our “self” for awhile.
Dancing, listening to music, reading a good book, painting, meditation, our favorite sport or exercise, gardening...
Where we spend time becomes familiar. Â Yes?
When we spend time in our practices of presence and awareness,
then our core authentic nature becomes more familiar and accessible to us
than our reactive and conditioned state of being.
By cultivating a...
Attaching our sense of joy, happiness, love, contentment, abundance, peace, etc..
to external conditions that are impermanent and always changing is an act of conditioned insanity.
Not that we don’t also find joy and enrichment
from the bounty of b...
The journey of awakening to our true nature includes the embodiment of acceptance.
Acceptance of all that is, as it is, cannot fully take root unless it can first penetrate the often hard and protected ground of our own personal truths that are diff...
We Are Perfect.
Anything else is a lie told by the fragile ego.
A short video presentation about
consciously choosing how we want to show up in the world.
I wasn’t having the experience that I thought I should be having.
Where was the epiphany, the sudden enlightenment, the God experience?
And then the Shaman turned to me and said,
“The problem is, you’re always looking for the fantasy of magic, rat...

Another interview on the Kim Pagano Show.
Subject:Â Why do we create drama in our lives and how do we reduce it.
I love when I’m invited to be on this program.

My interview on the Kim Pagano Show.
Subject: Where do we find our peace and how the pursuit of happiness can lead us astray.
I love when I get to be on this program.