Making Amends Weekly Blog Friends, The excerpt for this week comes from the book by Rami Shapiro entitled Making Amends from Recovery: The Twelve Steps as Spiritual Practice. Making Amends is the topic of Step Nine in the 12 Step process: “We make amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would…
Giving Up Playing Small Weekly Blog Friends, The excerpt this week comes from ACIM teacher Jennifer Hadley’s Daily Espresso blog for 5/10/18. “You gotta wanna see to be shown and sometimes it isn’t pretty. There’s no big or small in the All In All, each moment becomes a Divine access point of unprecedented creativity and…
Nothing Wrong With You Weekly Blog Friends, The excerpt for this week comes from the book There is Nothing Wrong with You: Going Beyond Self-Hate, by Zen Buddhist nun and spiritual guide, Cheri Huber. “The chances are extremely good that as you were growing up you heard at least a few of the following: Don’t…
Feminine Spirituality Weekly Blog Friends, The excerpt this week comes from three sources: two from Franciscan Richard Rohr and a third from Mirabai Starr, an interspiritual teacher and author of feminine mysticism, in an introduction to her course on “Wild Goddesses and Mystics of Mercy,” presented by The Shift Network…..” <read more…>
Impermanent Self Weekly Blog Friends, The excerpt for this week comes from Tibetan Buddhist teacher Pema Chodron in her course on “Making Friends With Yourself.” “It’s really helpful to ask the question, what do we mean by self? … I was listening to a teaching where the teacher’s definition of ego or self was “that…
Crossing the River of Change Weekly Blog Friends, The excerpt this week comes from Dr. Joe Dispenza’s online course entitled, “Making Your Mind Matter,” hosted by HayHouse Online Learning. “When you embrace the concept of change, where you are no longer going to think the same way, act the same way, feel the same way…
Easier Way Weekly Blog Friends, The excerpt for this week comes from ACIM teacher Jennifer Hadley’s Daily Espresso for 03/29/18 entitled “Letting God Make It Easier.” “Sometimes it feels like we’re so far away from where we’d like to be that we feel overwhelmed. It can feel as though its impossible. Especially when there’s a…
Brilliant Sanity Weekly Blog Friends, The excerpt this week comes from the book Brilliant Sanity: Buddhist Approaches to Psychotherapy, in the Preface written by Chogyam Trungpa. “Buddhist psychology is based on the notion that human beings are fundamentally good. Their most basic qualities are positive: openness, intelligence, and warmth….” <read more…>
Hawaiian Wisdom of Huna Weekly Blog Friends, The excerpt for this week comes from Huna blogger Serge Kahili King. “Huna is a Hawaiian word which refers to the esoteric wisdom of Polynesia….The understanding of Huna described here comes from the kupua tradition [which] works with the powers of the mind and the forces of nature….”…
Simplicity Weekly Blog Friends, The excerpt this week comes from the book Living the Quaker Way: Timeless Wisdom for a Better Life Today by Philip Gulley. “We have become so accustomed to defining success in material terms that we have failed to appreciate the other facets of life that enrich and sustain us…. But what…