“You cannot travel the path until you have become the path.” - Buddha Over many conversations and exchange of ideas with friends, the focus invariably changes to one’s purpose on our life’s journey. Through the many tangled twists and turns that our lives continually take, discerning how to proceed when we find ourselves immersed in [...]
“This day shall never come again.” - Thomas Merton What comes to mind when you think of wisdom? By definition, wisdom is: experience and knowledge together with the power of applying them, sagacity, prudence, common sense, sageness, judgment, discernment, reason, judiciousness, insight, learning and perhaps erudition. For each of us, wisdom comes from many avenues [...]
“Knowledge has three degrees – opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic, of the third, intuition.” - Plotinus Beginning a new decade, raises the question of how we continue this journey of life using the skill set/s we have or enhancing them with “the eyes behind [...]
“Our most important problems cannot be solved; they must be outgrown.” Carl Jung During the time before a new year, we often reflect on the events of the past several months making certain profound observations, concerning our decisions, choices and ultimate outcomes. We arrive at a time in our lives, where we understand what we [...]
“Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself – must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.” Ralph Waldo Emerson During this extremely busy, bustling, over-booked, overwhelming time of year, when becoming completely discombobulated is more the norm than the exception . [...]
“The strongest of all warriors are these two, time and patience.” Leo Tolstoy Recently, I was reminded what a friend had shared with me at one time in my life’s journey . . . sometimes to win the war, you have to loose a battle exercising a great deal of restraint, contemplation, observation and patience. [...]
“Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.” – Dante’s The Divine Comedy, Inferno Recently, I afforded myself the opportunity with purposeful intention, to extricate myself from the day to day routine and spend time away in focused reflection. It doesn’t [...]
“Contemplation is the highest form of activity.” - Aristotle When I first ruminated about contemplation, I believed I knew exactly what the meaning was, and upon further discovery learned differently. The definition of contemplation can be applied to: thoughtful observation or study, meditation on spiritual matters, especially as a form of devotion, intention or expectation, [...]
“Time will be as you interpret it, for of itself it is nothing.” from . . . A Course In Miracles As children, time was likened to “the enemy.” It appeared as if everything we did took an interminable, incalculable amount of time. It was as if we were swimming through molasses . . . [...]
At one point in my life’s journey, I heard a phrase that resonated so strongly within my being, that I conciously chose to focus my “intention” on exactly how I directed my purposeful choices from that point forward. It was just three words by Joseph Campbell . . . “Follow your bliss.” Up until that [...]