Transforming Fear and Isolation into Compassion and Community
What I have come to realize in my lifetime is that all true change only seems to come through extreme situations. The greater the intensity of the situation the more pronounced the emotion it elicits in me, the greater my ability to transform myself and my way of thinking...
The Art of Detachment – Freedom from Illusions, Transcendence, and the True Nature of Compassion
The idea of what it means to detach from something can seem confusing because, like most ideas, it has both positive and negative connotations, based on how it’s being looked at, applied, or done, or how it comes about naturally. In all forms of spiritual development, detachment from the...
Self-Mastery: Metamorphosis, Self-Creation, and the Art of Becoming
The true meaning of what we call self-mastery is our ability to master our own nature and resume conscious control over our higher capacities for creating ourselves. The fact is we’re always in the process of creating ourselves in every moment based on what we enter into relationship with,...
Compassion – The Nature of Perception, Judgment and Self-Realization
While many people perceive compassion as an act or something you do, true compassion is the result of a state of mind that you embody as a way of perceiving others from a non-judgmental perspective. It’s the primary way we come to understand others by understanding ourselves in them....