Overcoming a Dysfunctional Litter
We can never have enough of that which we really do not want.–Eric Hoffer One of the habits of highly effective people, from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey, is to Begin with the end in mind. Mr. Covey starts out the discussion by asking people to think about their funeral–by [...]
Why is it always so much easier to hear the inner critic than to hear the inner guide? I suppose, like getting fat vs. getting fit or being intellectually lazy vs. being a critical thinker, going to the negative is just easier. There is a lot of information out there in Internetland about the inner [...]
By means of meditation, I feel that we have planted dynamite to transcend the world of confusion. So it would be good if you could practice meditation as much as you can, as much as physically and psychologically possible. You could become more clear and sane, and you could also influence the national neurosis in [...]
The basic point of tantra is interest and awareness in every activity we are involved in throughout our life, in every moment.–Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche It may seem ambitious to think I can summarize the point of life in 1,200 words or less. But really, I don’t think it is. The point of life is actually [...]
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are [...]
Learn to pay attention to those moments when you feel most alive. This can be easier said than done because the moments you feel most alive tend to be the moments when you’re so immersed in something–be it an activity, an emotion, a song, or something else–that you don’t notice the tingling energy pulsating through [...]
Have you ever been in a conversation with someone that felt completely one-sided? Like the other person wasn’t really listening but just waiting to talk, and no matter what you said it was either ignored, misinterpreted, or used as a jumping off point to talk about something else? We’ve all had this experience. Such conversations [...]
It’s probably human nature to globalize when you’re feeling bad. You know what I mean: when you go through a break up, you think you’ll never be loved again. Or when you’re job hunting and don’t find something right away, to feel that you’re never going to be successful. Or when you have a disagreement [...]
From R.D. Laing: The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes or thoughts and deeds.
Many many years ago, I spent a week in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. I was still young and wild, and it was my first trip out of the country. I went with a hard-partying girlfriend and we had a rollicking good time, the details of which I will spare you as they are not relevant to [...]