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Maybe it’s time to just accept that the weather does control our state of mind and just be more accepting of myself when I decide to spend a rainy day on the couch. You can’t fight nature, right?

The belly laugh of a little kid is probably one of my most favorite things in the world, especially when that little kid is my own. Why?

Siddhartha Gautama was said to have lived approximately 500 years B.C. Through direct experience on both sides of dualistic living he fails to find contentment.

You just got a new car and meet up with a friend to show it off. After looking the car over and checking out all the high-tech features, your friend compliments the car and tells you it is, “Ridiculous!”

Whenever I think about the word soul, the song “I Like It (Like That)” by Pete Rodriquez pops into my head. I can hear it now, “I got soul, I got soul!”

I have always valued humility and deeply respect the genuinely humble. Yet, I must also confess that I admire (and sometimes envy) great men and women who have achieved high levels of material success and aren’t afraid to display pride in their accomplishments.

There are bodies that are controlled by minds void of soul. We call them robots. This reminds me of the classic Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, The Terminator.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin said, “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

After acknowledging what seems to be a perpetual state of planning that I’m in, I asked myself the question, “What is motivating this state?” The word responsibility immediately came to mind.

Over the course of my lifetime, I’ve been moving in many improper ways without realizing it.

Alchemy has always seemed an elusive subject to me and I never really understood the fascination behind it.

There are many parallels between Hinduism of the East and Christianity of the West, as Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, points out.

I decided to spend a few days alone in the mountains this weekend in order to read, write, reflect and knock some things off my to-do list that have been haunting me for a while.

What you have identified as your life is just a collection of memories about all the moments you’ve experienced up to that point.

Along the path of personal mastery, we don’t always get exactly what we want right when we want it. It is for this reason that we say that patience is a virtue.

Oneness may sound lofty to many of us. Like the heads and tails of a coin, it’s hard to get away from the idea that there are two sides to everything.

The search for wisdom is a journey along a path that leads back to the same place where we started.

We all have blind spots that prevent us from reaching our fullest potential and finding our true selves.

The purpose of metaphor is to help us understand something unknown, by comparing it to something known. One such metaphor takes place at the Wedding in Cana, written in the Bible, John 2:1-12.

You can accomplish your goals through both trial and error and by starting with the knowledge of others who have already been where you want to go.

In life, at times, seemingly wonderful things happen to us and we celebrate. Then later, as expectations are shattered, we find ourselves judging a situation as negative.

I have a strong affinity for the word synchronicity. Perhaps it is because as I get older it seems to happen more often.

If you’ve ever driven around with your emergency brake on, you know that feeling that the car seems to be working harder than usual. Movement is sluggish, noisy and you feel something isn’t right.

Have you ever considered that the cross is formed of perpendicular lines representing the merging of opposites?