The King and the Jester: On Forgotten Greatness, Fear, and Return

The parable of the king and the jester speaks to a deeper truth: when we forget our higher self, smallness takes the throne and life shrinks to fit it. Yet forgetfulness always carries the seed of awakening. This is a call to remember who you are and reclaim the crown that was always yours. … More The King and the Jester: On Forgotten Greatness, Fear, and Return

Spiritual Fragments: Play & Minding One’s Own Business

To be serene isn’t about managing and manipulating your environment into peace, for most often you yourself are the element of chaos, and your attempts at bringing peace is the very cause of disturbance.
Alternatively, one can find serenity by a simple act of reframing the will, the wish, and the goal:
If I want perfection to be the goal and wish that it’s the case, then by reframing what is as the perfect state of things, then the goal is already achieved and my wish instantly fulfilled. And if I will what already is, then I’m doing as I wish, for my wish, too, is what already is.
The cause of suffering is to wish things to be otherwise than they are, and that’s insanity to wish something that has already appeared in a certain form to have appeared differently. … More Spiritual Fragments: Play & Minding One’s Own Business

Painting Your Best Self: Transforming Affirmations into Action

The true, creative affirmation is not the affirmation of the tongue but the affirmation of action, for only through action can things be brought into existence. 
Just for today, I’ll visualize how my best version would be acting today, and I act as if I’m already established in that version. … More Painting Your Best Self: Transforming Affirmations into Action

Of Fratricide, Love, & Prayer: Pleas of a Restless Heart

To express and realize the desire of the heart, one must call the beloved into presence with one’s all being. All organs, subtle and gross, must call on the beloved: the heart by prayer, the tongue by speaking the truth, the eyes by seeing beauty, the ears by active listening, and the body by selfless service. When all of a man’s being calls on the same thing, that’s well-being and harmony; when there’s divergence and each organ wants something different, that’s disease. … More Of Fratricide, Love, & Prayer: Pleas of a Restless Heart

How to use our inner chaos to lead a better life and become who we’re meant to be

To move out of the looming chaos, we can pay attention to the loudest call that’s drawing our attention to itself; in most cases it’s very simple and is something in our most immediate environment and time-zone. Perhaps cleaning something up, writing the next blog post, renewing the car’s annual inspection, etc.. It’s only when our immediate environment (both mental and physical) is in a state of relative order that we can get a more stable long-term vision of our life and the next right step toward it. When we make our day a relatively clean day, not only do we allow the next layer of possibilities to shines forth, we also create more positive emotions through these meaningful actions, emotions that are conducive to more meaningful actions that can exponentially improve our situation. … More How to use our inner chaos to lead a better life and become who we’re meant to be