Jun 9, 2016 Calling and Purpose
I was with a client recently. She’s an expert in her field. She’s been teaching her work for decades. And I was enquiring into the essential nature of her work, asking her what this work was really about, and how it moved people. She was in flow. She was transmitting....
May 3, 2016 Calling and Purpose
Sweetheart, you don’t get it. You don’t realize just how beautifully valuable you are. So very precious. So very special. Because you’re like me. You forget. You deny it. You disbelieve it. It’s not your fault. It’s not a pathology – something that went wrong. There’s...
Dec 15, 2015 Calling and Purpose
In the first part of this article I talked about shame and how we’re carrying so much of it, and that it is the root of sin. Not in some old clichéd Catholic sense, where we come from some original bad stock. We’re ashamed because we’re struggling to find the courage...
Dec 8, 2015 Calling and Purpose
We’ve thrown out sin. It’s gone, along with religious guilt, dogma and other old dusty concepts that clash with our modern sense of freedom. It’s gone because it was a moral label from a by-gone past. Or at least, that’s what we think. But I’m going to tell you a...
Jun 8, 2015 Calling and Purpose
I was at dinner a few nights ago with a friend. We’d just spent a day with the spiritual teacher Adyashanti. We’d both been deeply moved by the experience, and by him. As we talked about life, love and religion, I happened to mention that I’d felt increasingly drawn...
Apr 14, 2015 Calling and Purpose
Money is not what you think it is. It’s not what I thought it was. It used to be something that was hard to find, harder to keep, and very hard to talk about. It was unspiritual, a sign of selling out, or worse. Money is like a lover, and I must confess; she and I...
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