Reflections
Optimal Living Resources
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...
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…...
“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...
I have another blog that shares more about the transformative and life changing experience of living in the dark for 10 days, but I...
Emptying ourselves of all thoughts, beliefs, ideas, conclusions and positions is a powerful meditative practice.
Within that practice we can feel more deeply into our true nature, past the illusion of form and ego focused identity.
We put it all...
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…..
We become so immersed in the...
Foundational to a life of grace, joy and spiritual growth is the strengthening of our ability to trust.
Not trust that everything happens for a reason, or trust that people are inherently good, or trust that everything will turn out alright....
When a significant and foundational part of our life falls apart or starts to come apart at the seams we resist.
And that makes sense. We feel extremely vulnerable when the parts of our lives that we’ve worked so hard to...
The mind cannot successfully navigate and interpret life all on its own.
Our internal guidance system, our own deep knowing, is a powerful resource that many have forgotten how to listen to, or perhaps never learned to trust in the first...
Our meditation practice is not simply an opportunity to recharge ourselves, it is an opportunity to practice and strengthen life skills such as non-attachment, presence, compassion, the easing of story telling, etc…
We then take those...
