We need to attend to the body as well as the spirit.

When we are first drawn to the spiritual path, we may begin to move away from the material. And yet the nature of our journey is the experience of spirit in matter. We are here to express spirit through form. The two depend on each other. And so we want …

The spiritual journey is a journey of consciousness.

The spiritual journey first follows the path of personality to explore limitation and separation. It then takes the path of soul to reconnect with expansiveness and unity. Here’s another bird’s eye view of how our lives unfold to awaken our consciousness: 1. Unconscious love: When we are born, we exist …

Beware of spiritual materialism.

The Tibetan teacher, Chogyam Trungpa, warned of the trap of spiritual materialism. He says we must be ever diligent to spot the ego’s use of the spiritual journey to further its own ends. If ego’s wants underlie our desire for spiritual connection, we may be using spiritual techniques to strengthen …

Become familiar with soul.

Do you sense that something is missing in your life? Chances are, you are experiencing the lack of soul in your world. What is soul? Our minds may want to understand soul as an entity. Andrew Schneider says that “soul is who we are as incarnated Spirit, …who we are …

Take creativity to another level!

Take creativity to another level!

“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Increase the size of your playing field. As you create ideas, think real big. As you do, you draw from a greater source of experiences and thoughts. Project 3 years into the …

Do you know the key to creativity?

Do you know the most important thing that enhances creativity? It rhymes with weed. It produces the oak tree.  It is what we often eat or grind up for flour. It can mean egg or germ or nucleus. It can mean cause or origination. You guessed it. It is SEED. …

Stimulate creativity with humor.

Stimulate creativity with humor.

“Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.” — Edward De Bono I love Edward De Bono’s explanation of how humor sparks creativity. To illustrate this, I am going to tell you a joke: Did you hear about the man who …

Being creative is a logical process

“Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know.Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.” — George Kneller Creativity is not a gift you have to …

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