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I am reading all the books by Michael Connelly.
I had read about 20 before getting to the last few I have on my kindle… these books stirred up something in me…
Suddenly, in these last few books, there is an unexpected twist: the last three novels have a similar element, not quite there, or maybe even missing from the previous ones: a friend or colleague is turning against friend or colleague…
Continue reading “Keep your enemies close… with friends like this who needs enemies?”
It seems that what they do is so intolerable for me, that I can barely contain myself. The desire to just smack them is so strong, I have to physically restrain myself.
What do they do that I can’t tolerate?
They deflect.
Their deflection has several forms: Denial-Deflection-Discredit.
Continue reading “Some people drive me crazy. Can you recognize yourself?”
Getting to Abundance one Step At A Time – Practicing The Feeling Of Freedom And Power Through Contributing To It
Churches, communities, etc. ask you to contribute. And you comply: you volunteer, you give away your old winter coat, you give food, or money.
But as in everything, context is decisive.
What’s the context in their request? That you support the less fortunate. There is morality: you can afford and therefore you should, and there is shaming… you don’t eat your food and little kids starve in Africa, or “be generous and earn the Kingdom of Heaven” b.s.
All of these make you a wretch. And not just you, anyone. Why? Because context is decisive.
Nature, trees, animals, do not willingly give what they have, unless they have a selfish reason for it. Not a feeling, but a direct benefit. And nature is fine, thank you, and no one suffers. No morality, no shoulds, just good old selfishness. Surprised? Good.
Continue reading “Getting to Abundance one Step At A Time… really”
I remember, in the “Ultimate Leadership” course, being guided around land mines while my eyes were closed. The issue of trust, trusting my life to another human being was something I still have nightmares about today. The course was almost 10 years ago.
But in that exercise I knew the outcome, so I could keep it in my mind’s eye as “that’s what will be the result if all goes as planned.”
Continue reading “Being guided is the weirdest feeling you can imagine”
I have been pondering what is the Soul’s attitude, the Soul’s relationship to dying.
After all the Soul is immortal, at least relative to the physical body. But what does it mean? How does it feel? What does the Soul think about that? And does the Soul come back and know it has been here before? And how does it relate to the new body, if that is how it work?
Great questions, no answers until this morning.
Continue reading “Will the Soul in you cry when it’s time to die, or is it going sigh a sigh of relief that the boredom is ending?”
The biggest issues that I see students deal with are around the fear of taking a wrong step.
The underlying belief, the underlying assumption is that the soul’s path, your life’s work is a straight line and unless you are on that line, you are off.
This is a very debilitating belief. 1 It is perpetuated by the ego: the ego wants to minimize your investment, and maximize your gains, and it fancies itself to know what you should do.
In the case of life path, what’s next for you, etc. questions, it opts to no action, no change… after all the ego’s job is to keep you safe, and safe, when the ego looks, is mostly staying the safe. You have survived until that point, after all. The ego is interested in looking good and surviving.
The ego’s interest and the soul’s interest are diametrically opposed. The soul wants you to move, to take risks, to have a learning experience. But most importantly, the soul wants your life, your activities, your path to have a direction.
Continue reading “Are you on the right track… integrity… compass… conscience. Is there such a thing as a path?”
Dear Sophie, I’ve purchased three audio activators so far, and all I can say is… you deliver. The – Get Into Action activator should be subtitled – how to get organized immediately.
When you read that, you should say: I want that for myself. Really.
There are two types of people.
SWEETENING JUDGMENT
Every word we speak, every action we perform, is a boomerang flung into the cosmos. All these billions of boomerangs inevitably return to our lives – the positive ones and all the negative ones.
This Name soul correction helps us to alter the amount and the direction negative boomerangs that come hurling toward us.
Though we’re not aware of it, any negative behavior – even if it seems very minor – brings destructive forces into play. Whenever we speak in an uncivil or rude manner; whenever we cheat, lie, steal, insult, or harm other people – Pop! – we create a force of judgment. These negative forces are the unseen cause behind all the things that just “happen” to go wrong in our lives.
Continue reading “Soul Correction: Sweetening Judgment”
Brilliance, Digging For Gold, Soul Desire, And Eavesdrop On My Private Conversations…
I was on the phone with a friend of mine this morning. We started out in a mastermind. Every other member fell away, but we have been talking, every Sunday at 9 am, for seven years now.
In mastermind, the most important ingredient is: you get to say what’s up, out loud and be heard. This is really important, because the people in your life can’t hear you: they have too much past that interferes, too much vested interest in the way: they will not be able to hear you. But on a mastermind of people with no investment in you being anything other than you are, you can speak, and you can be heard.
I heard somewhere, I can’t remember when, can’t remember where, that “It is hard to be silently brilliant, lots of thoughts occur when you open your mouth.”
I always wanted to be brilliant. And I always knew that brilliance was like gold, hidden in layers and layers of dirt, sometimes deep, and you need to dig for it.
Continue reading “Brilliance, Digging For Gold, Soul Desire, And Eavesdrop On My Private Conversations…”
Update 7/16/2023
As I was writing an article I realized something I had never seen.
I am energized by resistance. I am a 34, aka Forget Thyself.
I have a slew of incidents in my life where I not only resisted, but fought tooth and nail. Continue reading “Soul Correction: Forget Thyself. Condescension, superiority”
