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If separation is a detour into fear along the path to personal mastery and higher consciousness, it is time for me to get back on the main road.

Love is so much greater than an intoxicating feeling between two people in an intimate relationship. In his book, Loveability, my mentor and spiritual teacher, Robert Holden, explains that love is so broad and deep that it cannot be defined.

I’m fairly certain that I learned about the basics of planetary orbits around the sun before I learned about the atomic orbits of electrons around the nucleus of an atom.

Do you meditate regularly? Do you meditate occasionally? Do you have thoughts that you should meditate more? Do you have any judgments about meditation that might prevent you from doing it?

Straight out of college, I was a travelling business consultant on an expense account. We ate steak dinners with a bottle of wine several times a week.

I heard The Avett Brothers song, “No Hard Feelings” for the first time last night. I recently lost a very close friend and the timing of the words in this song, as they first hit my ears, seemed like synchronicity and felt divine.

In every human being there is the entire universe. Without everything that came before you were conceived, you would not exist. This is the butterfly effect!

Where does the fear of being wrong come from? Why do our unchecked minds find the need to separate our individual selves from the unity that is found in oneness?

I initially learned that an introvert is someone that recharges when alone, while extraverts prefer to be surrounded by others to get their energy.

I feel a sense of harmony when I find references within different religions that seem to point to the same general ideas about spirituality. In this post we find a link between East and West.

Marcus Aurelius was the Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD and the book Meditations includes his personal reflections on Stoic philosophy.

My lifelong friend, Matt, had an incredible way with music. It was always been a great outlet for him and the best way he found for getting in touch with his soul.

The psychological term cognitive dissonance has always intrigued me. Cognitive relates to the mind, which is to say thinking and processing. Dissonance is the opposite of harmony in that it involves disturbance caused by the clashing of two things.

I found it fascinating to learn that nervous systems and brains first developed and evolved to facilitate simple movement. What does this have to do with oneness?

My first introduction to any spiritual or religious teachings outside of Christianity came during an “Introduction to Buddhism” class that I took in college. Taking this class ended up being one of the best spiritual decisions I could have ever made.

As children of the eighties, my wife and I are huge fans of the band U2. A blog about oneness, would not be complete without incorporating their song, One.

Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright expands the concept of the hero’s journey to organizations. I originally read it years ago, as I was building my team, to help us develop our culture.

David Hawkins’ “Map of Consciousness” lays out a calibrated scale of the states of consciousness. Most individual states of consciousness only increase a few points over the course of a lifetime

The color blue brings me joy. In many instances, you can only see blue from far away and when you try to get close it vanishes. Water, ice and sky, in their vastness, can all be seen through many shades of blue.

According to author and speaker, Brian Tracy, only three percent of people have written goals. How many of these goals are related to external rewards such as money, cars, and fame?

Steve Jobs was a deeply spiritual man. He planned out every aspect of his funeral in advance. Each attendee left with a copy of Autobiography of a Yogi.

If love and fear are just parts of the whole, then why do the emotions associated with love feel pleasant and those that come out of fear feel uncomfortable?

I’ve heard it said that there are only two basic emotions, love and fear. All positive emotions and states of mind stem from love while the negative ones come out of fear.

What if we set an intention to use Kahneman’s System 2 with more regularity to question unconscious beliefs? To be a maverick and deliberately question our unconscious beliefs, this is what it means to truly think for ourselves.