Speaking True: Ten Thousand Lives
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On life nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine, you have to forget everything you've learned in order to learn the final lessons of compassion…or whatever.
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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.
Discontented?
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It seems most everyone is looking for a place in their lives and in the world to just be happy. While all of us seem to hear the calling or yearning in such language, it’s clear that many of us are mostly focused on what’s wrong in our external realities rather than our internal ones.
Read MoreThe Three Halves of Life
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Every now and again we may find ourselves captured in video or audio as the most interesting things pour forth from us. Sometimes our only option is to be surprised by what appears. That’s the case with this somewhat rough monologue that unfolded in a conversation with a long-time mentee and friend.
Read MoreSolutions, Solutions
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For the longest time, like many of us, I thought problem solving was largely to be focused on the external world. Then one day, I realized that many of our challenges with problems in our lives are internal ones.
Read MoreInherent Innocence
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When I teach or talk about inherent innocence, invariably it agitates some folks so much that they get snarky, or even attack. Let’s be clear: Inherent innocence does not mean acts of commission or omission have not occurred. It doesn’t mean it is right, or even justified. It certainly does not mean we are not to take action.
Read MoreSpeaking True: Freedom?
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July 4th is not far off. Everybody's going to be talking about freedom. It's a subject that comes up quite often for me, not from a national point of view, but really from a human point of view.
Read MoreSpeaking True: Mentoring
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The amazing thing about mentors, as I have found it, is almost everybody loves giving their experience, sharing what they know, what they've learned. And if we make it valuable for them, we're going to get everything we need.
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