Fear
The Real World
“The real world isn’t a place – it’s an excuse. It’s a justification for not trying. It has nothing to do with you.” (Rework, Jason Fried & David Heinenmeier Hansson) Okay, this is a hard one. Because as much as I adore this quote, this perspective, I know how it sounds every time I advocate…
Read MoreResentment
“Resentment is the poison we swallow hoping the other person will die.” I’m sorry, because I know how compelling it is to think otherwise – but its true. Stop drinking the poison. It’s not working. Not in the way we want it to anyway. It is slowly eating away at us; slowly increasing the toxicity…
Read MoreFailure – or Success?
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” (Samuel Beckett) Beautiful, truthful and cynical. Perfectly Beckett. The other side of this enlightened coin reads: “Life is a successive unfolding of success from failure.” Think about it. Always before you can do something, there is a period of time in which you…
Read MoreTurning the Bed Around
I recently heard a wonderful lecture, as her lectures characteristically are, by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes (for info on Dr. Estes see Theatre of the Imagination in my Resources). In it, Dr. Estes tells the story of a boy, (and yes, later a man), whose godmother was the Goddess of Life and Death (if you…
Read MoreOur Deepest Fear: Part Two
Yesterday I posted the following quote from Marianne Williamson’s A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves,…
Read MoreOur Deepest Fear: Part One
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” How eerily, how profoundly, how earth-shatteringly true. A dear friend sent this quote to me the other day, from Marianne Williamson’s A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles. Here is…
Read MoreThe Oracle Answers: Thinking in Freedom. Aligning with Self.
FIRST PROVOCATION: If you knew you couldn’t fail, and you had an endless supply of money, what would you be, do, and/or have?’ You know the expression ‘to think outside the box’? Normally ‘the box’ refers to convention, and the expression means to think outside of convention, or to think unconventionally. Well here, the box…
Read MoreThe Oracle Answers: Face the Fear. Syphon its Power.
FIRST PROVOCATION: What is the WORST thing that could happen if you made the wrong choice (or failed, or didn’t get what you wanted)? (Choose the most appropriate phrasing for your desire, and the way you articulated it.) If you’ve ever had a session with me, you know that I ask this question a lot:…
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