Posted in Perceptions on Feb 9th, 2010 No Comments »
The Present Moment Contains Insight & Wisdom
I was reading an editorial in Newsweek that contain this quote from Marcus Aurelius:
If you’ve seen the present then you’ve seen everything – as it’s been since the beginning, as it will be forever. The same substance, the same form. All of it.
Very few of us really seem to [...]
Posted in Observations on Sep 7th, 2009 No Comments »
A couple of notes from the Ridhwan 2009 Summer Retreat:
The View of Totality is outside dual and non-dual, it includes both.
Mysterious Being is behind the evolution of the universe and life and consciousness and the soul.As it evolves our experience, it manifests as the enlightenment drive.
Our responsibility, viewed from the perspective of the individual self [...]
Posted in Perceptions on Nov 16th, 2008 No Comments »
Working with Dreams to Free the Soul
Dream Interpretation vs. Dream Work
Years ago, when I started this journey of exploration into “what is the nature of me,” I had a period of interest in dreams. Many teachers encourage us to explore our dreams. I had very little interest in dream interpretation, still do – though the [...]
Posted in Poetry on Jul 11th, 2008 No Comments »
The problem with in-laws
Is the concern
For their family values
Not you
The mind’s orientation
Toward the soul
Is similar
Posted in Observations on Apr 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Came across this today in Your Soul’s Compass:
We’ve defined the Soul’s Compass as an intelligence located in the heart that’s capable of perceiving and responding to the good. In Hebrew there’s a concept called yetzer ha-tov – the urge to good. Sometimes yetzer -ha-tov is imagined sitting on one shoulder, and yetzer ha-ra’ – the [...]
Posted in Poetry on Aug 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Love is the dancing cry of the soul, calling the body to worship
Like a shining whirlpool, or a spinning mayfly
So is love among the skies.
I leap across the mountaintops, madly singing the song of all songs
I float through the ether, intoxicated, thrilled
I think only of your love, your calling to me
And I dance the thousand [...]
Posted in Perceptions on May 8th, 2007 1 Comment »
The soul informed by the ego is asleep. This is why enlightenment is called awakening — your soul wakes up to what is really here.
A.H. Almaas
Posted in Perceptions on Apr 28th, 2007 No Comments »
Whenever we do any work on ourselves, or engage in any way in the inner journey, we are invariably working with our soul. - A.H. Almaas
Mostly the path leading us to make the decision to “work” on ourselves is littered with frustration, heartbreak and suffering. Many will say the motivation lies in more altruistic spheres, [...]
Posted in Perceptions on Apr 27th, 2007 7 Comments »
The debate goes on:
Where does life begin?
When does self-reflective consciousness begin?
Where does consciousness reside?
I do believe it has been proven that early conditioning begins in the womb as the fetus and its (consciousness, psyche, soul) are subjected to the mother’s responses to her experience. These responses can be emotional, energetic, physical (muscular contractions [patterns], chemical, [...]
