Ellen and I spend a lot of time wondering about things that some people call psychological or spiritual. Like, I was making lunch today and I thought, “Wow, when we die and don’t have bodies anymore, we won’t have anything to worry about. It seems like it will be all about connecting.” Ellen said, “No […]
Self-love is the most significant factor in your life that determines your happiness and sense of fulfillment. Yet, we must be taught how to achieve this deeply needed relationship with self in this culture. Other cultures in other times have focused heavily on this inner relationship. However, American culture has been focused on outer accomplishment […]
What more appropriate day for an article on creation than Mother’s Day? After all, it is a mother’s act of creating new little humans that has given us the human race. And in that act of creation is born the other half of our most fundamental reason for existence: connection. These two pieces are […]
This week we have a guest author, my partner Ellen. Our weeks are spent discussing growth and learning stuff because that is our main shared interest. Ellen decided to write about some of our recent insights into how we process life. Black & White Thinking Black-and-white thinking originated in the brains of children. Yes, […]
Independence, freedom, liberty — these are the battle cries that founded this country two and a half centuries ago. Such words stir the passions and fill the imagination with images of a perfect world in which we are able to be whatever we wish to be. These words generate idealism to the point that […]
Life is a curious thing. People can spend their entire life striving for a particular something, and then when they finally achieve it they feel empty and incomplete. Sometimes this is on a very obvious level with things like money. A person may have a lifelong dream to become a millionaire, and then when […]
It is Christmas day about 5:30 in the evening. The table is cleared and the food put away and the last of our guests have wandered off for home. It was a good Christmas – lots of connection with loved ones. We were smart this year in that we had most of the Christmas dinner […]
We live to connect. Connection is one of the fundamental purposes of conscious existence. Connection creates both purpose and meaning in life. Imagine being stranded alone on a desert island with no hope of ever being rescued. Initially, you scramble around just trying to survive, but once you get a survival routine established, you […]
It was my turn two weeks ago to pick a spiritual principle for our study group to focus on for our next gathering. We spend two weeks contemplating a principle then get together to share what we got from that time spent asking for insight. The principle I chose was: “We are invisible to others. […]
My sweetheart, Ellen, has been in the hospital after suffering a seemingly small fall in the bedroom. Since then, she has been unable to put any weight on her leg, rendering her unable to even transfer into her wheelchair. X-rays and CT scans have shown nothing to cause all this weakness and pain. The emergency […]