The challenge with trying to control everything is that you can’t ever really. You can influence others. You may even be able to exercise a certain degree of influence over groups of people or circumstance…but control is a feverish dream ( Read more... )

Eleanor Roosevelt is noted, among many things, for her many pithy little bits of wisdom. This morning I was leafing through one of my girlfriend’s Somerset Studio magazines when I ran across this apropos little pearl, “Every day do something that scares you.”

Fear and courage are the twin themes that have been surfacing lately in my daily practice ( Read more... )

Failure never bothers me. It’s part of my education. Its how I learn what works and what doesn’t. Nature has done this through the process of Natural Selection and look how amazing the world we live in is. A person unafraid of failure or looking the fool can achieve great things. That person will become wiser and steadier than his or her peers, ( Read more... )

Angst serves no other purpose than to remind you of the absurdity of life. This can be considered hell. Hell is not a place you will be sent in the next life if you are not living up to some god’s standards, hell is where you stand at this moment. You can’t see this because you are unaware of any other way to feel.

Angst comes to us from the German ( Read more... )

We live in a world created by ego. Therefore it is fitting that the majority of those living here worship the god of ego. The heterodox schools of Christian thought that thrived openly in the years before the political advent of the Roman Catholic Church referred to this god as the demiurge. The Demiurge is the creator god of your scriptures, both ( Read more... )

Fear is constipation of the mind. Just as a turd can block up your colon, fear can create a debilitating blockage in your mind. Anyone with chronic digestive or colon issues will tell you that if you don’t eliminate waste on a regular basis you will poison your body and it will become toxic and very ill. The same goes with our minds.

Our minds are ( Read more... )

Money is the root of all evil. At least that is the pervading spiritual attitude about it that many of us have, which is surprising given that here in the west we live in such a state of material consciousness. We uphold the value of spiritual poverty and doing without, yet we seem to fear it.

The attitudes we have about money and our relationship ( Read more... )

Ernest Holmes taught that humanity had learned everything it could from suffering. Yet, we still seem to savor misery and pain. This brings us back to our old friend fear. But, before we can get a good grasp of what fear is, we should try to define it for the purposes of our discussion.

A mere dictionary definition cannot do this for us. Fear from ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I turn 40 years old. Actually I will make that turn sometime shortly after midnight this evening. I was really expecting to have a difficult time with this. But in the fresh light of a new day it isn't so bad...turning 40. Every year around my birthday I fall into a grand and dismal depression that lasts for a couple of days. By all rights ( Read more... )