Discretion is the Better Part of Valour

Discretion is the Better Part of Valour

It’s meant to be a joke. Caution is not the first port of call for the courageous. And yet this sarcasm has become a structural support for those seeking to extol the charity and practical wisdom of letting cooler heads prevail. But who cares, right? Who really...
How To Feel (fill in the blank)

How To Feel (fill in the blank)

There is a simple way to match that feeling you’re chasing with the reality you’re already living (and it’s not the secret or the law of attraction or anything else you’ve tried so far), I promise!   Let’s cut straight to the chase...
The Lollipop or the Lash?

The Lollipop or the Lash?

Sure, I could focus on what I’m not doing (yet). Make note of and draw attention to, say, the exercise regime of my ‘ideal self’ to-do list… I could feel bad about how different/better/healthier I might be if I had actually dedicated myself as...
Doing Without Doing

Doing Without Doing

What happens when you combine inner-work with outer-work? You get Oneness. But how do you live in a world that looks like it has borders and boundaries, with people who talk in terms of being separate, and still maintain your own cosmology of Oneness? In other words,...
Compassionate Ends

Compassionate Ends

Like hyphenated Americans, the idea of radical compassion or unconditional love, bemuse. While many seem to abide the lores of selective compassion, which is not unlike selective-listening where one admits to some but not all of what is available, compassion is what...
Compassionate Ends

Quantum Map

Once you begin to say “yes” to this new way of being on the planet, this neutral consciousness, you will understand even the mind’s filters in a non-judgemental way. You will see all things as serving you no matter how crazy or illogical they seem. You will see the order in chaos and more than this, you will love playing it’s symphony is all things.

Compassionate Ends

Caring

When you want to do something for someone that they will not do for themselves or when you tell someone something they have not asked to hear, especially when it ‘helps’ them, this is not caring.