Go for what you want

 
“Follow your bliss.”
– Joseph Campbell
It’s hard for some of us to believe that the world is served when we seek our own happiness. We’ve been taught that this is selfish.
If we stop to reflect on how we are in the world when we are happy, we can see how this serves. We have more vitality. [...]

Listen to your heart

 
“To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path might lead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it.”
– Jean Shinoda Bolen
“When you have compassion and surrender to your own heart, you are surrendering to [...]

Refuse to be a victim

 
“We focus on the negatives, losing ourselves in the ‘problem.’ We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes, after all, very little effort to feel victimized.”
– Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Nothing and no one can make us a victim. We do it to ourselves when we allow [...]

Does money rule?

“If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.”
– Francis Bacon
In what ways does money rule your life?
Money has entered so deeply into our lives that it can become our primary reference point. We make so many of our decisions based on how they affect the bottom line. Do you compromise things you [...]

Pay attention to your emotions

“Emotions are the next frontier to be understood and conquered. To manage our emotions is not to drug them or suppress them, but to understand them so that we can intelligently direct our emotional energies and intentions…. It’s time for human beings to grow up emotionally, to mature into emotionally managed and responsible citizens. No [...]

ACCEPT CHANGE

 
“We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning; for what in the morning was true will in evening become a lie.”
– C.G. Jung
Life continually evolves. We’re always moving into new experiences, new possibilities. This constant change unsettles the personality, which finds security in stability. But with life always in [...]

SUPPORT OTHERS WITH YOUR PRESENCE

 
“The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but TO MOVE THROUGH IT to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.”
– James Hollis
How do we support others who are suffering?
When we understand how soul works through us, we begin to see how pain generates the impulse to change. We see [...]