Consciousness/Thriving

How To Give Gifts With A Smile

"He gives little who gives with a frown; he gives much who gives little with a smile." --The Talmud Coming out of the holiday season, I've heard many stories from friends and clients about giving and receiving gifts. One significant lesson…

Are You Living In Your Own World?

Each one of us is the star, producer, director and audience of our very own feature film in the theater of our mind. It's like living in our own parallel universe. There is the "real world" -- within which we all exist and interact with one…

Finding a Deeper Love This Valentine’s Day

With the romantic hype of Valentine's Day, it is easy to get caught up in judgment about our own "love life" as we call it. Do I have someone to send me flowers and cards of adoration? Will someone be taking me out for a romantic evening? If…

A Spiritual Perspective On Greed

"If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?" -- Rabbi Hillel "The problem which divides people today is not a political problem; it is a social one. It is a matter of…

Embracing the Truth of the Permanently Impermanent

Whenever we view something as permanent, reliable and unchangeable, we eventually find that time or the alteration of the parameters of our perspective reveal an underlying impermanence. For example, many people say that the only things one…
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Keeping The Doors Of Love Open In Your Relationship

I am meeting with a lot of couples these days regarding officiating at their wedding ceremonies, as May to October is high season for weddings. The wedding industry has become so commercialized that we often forget what the hoopla is all about.…

The Problem with the Past and the Future

How much time do you spend dwelling on the past or worrying about the future? These mental and emotional creations are all figments of your imagination -- mockups of how reality might be different. Meanwhile, reality is staring you right in…

Celebrating Oneness in Diversity

No matter how strategic you are in attempting to resolve a difference of opinion with another person, as long as it is framed as a conflict and viewed by at least one of you in terms of one person being "right" and the other as "wrong" no real…

How Close Is Your Reality to Reality?

One of the most fascinating things about life is that each person lives and experiences life through a unique set of filters which create a one-of-a-kind "reality." One's personal world view may or may not bear much resemblance to what is actually…

Finding Your Groove

"Good and quickly seldom meet." -- Anonymous Do you move through space and time too fast, too slow or just right? Do you find yourself rushing about or dragging yourself around? Why is it so important to pay attention to this? When we step…

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