Posted in Plans & Action on Jun 28th, 2007
The End of Fear?
Is there anything good about fear?
Look at new age, spiritual, and self-improvement blogs, books, CDs, and seminars.
Fear is bad for your health, your relationships, your personal growth, and your spiritual development.
Fear tells us to avoid and hide from every difficulty in our lives.
Fear tells us to do nothing when we should [...]
Posted in LifeDreams on Jun 20th, 2007
The Fantasy of the Hero
For as long as I can remember I’ve wanted to be a hero.
I’ve loved myths, legends, science fiction, and comic books my whole life.
Sounds childish, right?
It’s easy to psychoanalyze a love of heroes, and dismiss it as a childish or neurotic desire to escape from reality.
Do I want to [...]
Posted in Learn, Think, & Decide, Possibility & Personal Growth on Jun 13th, 2007
Thinking Bloggers Award
Ejcooksey was kind enough to send a thinking bloggers award in my direction, and I’m proud to accept it.
The award is meant to publicize blogs that help us think in new directions.
These blogs introduce us to new ways to look at some aspect of our personal or professional lives.
The rules of the award [...]
Posted in LifeDreams, Plans & Action, Possibility & Personal Growth on May 22nd, 2007
Waiting
It seems like I’m always waiting.
Waiting for tomorrow, next week, next year.
Waiting for the perfect moment to do what my heart aches to do.
Waiting to be the person that I want to be.
Waiting to be given the power, to find the power, or to acquire the means to act effortlessly – without conflict, struggle, tension, [...]
Posted in Hiding From Yourself, War on May 9th, 2007
Mirrors
To me, the world is a magical place, full of wonder.
It’s not a belief, exactly.
It’s a feeling.
Certain objects seem more wondrous than others, and show up frequently in stories about magical worlds.
Take mirrors, for example.
It’s strange to see yourself from the outside in.
One of the reasons that it seems so strange to look at yourself [...]
Posted in Hiding From Yourself, War on May 1st, 2007
The Meaning of Stories and Lies
In Part 1, At War With Myself, we heard that a person pretends to be of one mind and one heart, while the truth is that each of us is full of contradictions. We’re full of warring personalities and beliefs.
Where did these contradictory, and often limiting beliefs come from?
They came [...]
Posted in Explore, Play, Imagine, & Create on Apr 12th, 2007
What do you think of when someone says the word “imagination”?
Creativity
If you’re an artist, writer, sculptor, musician, photographer you might think of imagination as a place.
A place deep inside where you search for something new.
Somehow yours, and yet not yours.
In Greek Mythology, the sources of inspiration were creatures called Muses.
The source of inspiration was personified as [...]
