Speaking True: Go with the Flow ... or Not
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The current of life is always flowing. Do you move with it, against it, or cut across the current? How will you choose to interact with it?
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Seeing True™ is a moment of epiphany that is so pronounced that subsequent changes in direction or behavior are dramatically altered for the better. The Greeks called this “metanoia,” which means "change of mind," though it might translate better today as “a profound change of heart.” In the Seeing True framework, we focus on transformation as the desired result, and forgiveness and relationships as the spaces in which we practice.
Speaking True: Guns, Tomahawks, and Tatas
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A subject that comes up all the time professionally and in my personal encounters in the world is the value proposition. Now, if you're not familiar with that term, it's a marketing term that talks about giving people what they need and want and finding a way to connect their needs, their wants, and what you're trying to give them
Read MoreRealizing Well-being and Joy
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A central principle for me is to tell the truth about myself to myself. Sometimes I have to tell those truths to you so I can remember. Thirty years ago, a teacher gently began to show me that "the kingdom of heaven is within you." Through all this time, lesson after lesson, we have sought to explore and let go of the countless ways that my utterly human self gets in the way of that realization.
Read MoreSpeaking True: Relating vs. Relationship
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We should always remember that the nature of relationships is relating. Perhaps some of the problems come from turning the act and art of relating into the fixedness of “relationship.” What if there is another way to be in connection with others?
Read MoreWhere's the Problem?
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We humans are living projectors. Whenever we feel discomfort, our first tendency is to look for something other than ourselves to blame for that discomfort. That doesn’t mean there isn’t a problem outside ourselves, but even if there is, what’s the problem with that?.
Read MoreAren't We All Self-Centered?
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To put it as a simple question: Do any of us ever do anything that does not somehow align to our own perceived self-interests? And to add the follow up questions: Could it be that it really is nothing more than having awareness of those self-interests, and not fooling ourselves into thinking we are virtuous?
Read MoreSpeaking True: The Three "F"s
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Fight, freeze, flee — many would say these are our only options as humans. Yet wise ones will tell us we are more than meets the eye, more than a corporeal being in a physical world. Some call this added dimension the “soul.”
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