Can philanthropy and marketing go hand in hand?
📷 Being on the spiritual journey and flourishing financially at the same time can be problematic. People will eagerly fork over wads of cash for tiny purses, weird artwork, expensive cars and more, but offer them a legitimate and powerful healing blessing, and ask money for it, it's like you suggested that they mortgage their house to buy a taco. Likewise, you can say, "Well, you can spend a week in the hospital and generate $100,000 worth of medical bills, or you can come
The Grand Canyon of self-perception, ha ha
I had a thought this morning while at the mirror brushing my teeth, that made me laugh. I wondered to myself, why is it that the inside me is the same “I am” that it’s been all along, (hopefully better), that what looks back at me in the mirror is OK, yes it’s still me with some added wear and tear. But that which peers back at me when I’m looking down at the phone and inadvertently go to selfie mode looks like an advertisement for a planet inhabited solely by weird looking o
Tapestry Lesson
Some years ago I was presented with the analogy of spiritual journey, of life itself, as a tapestry. I can’t remember who told the story, when, or where, but it has stuck with me, and I have offered it as a teaching often. The story told the tale of a great tapestry master weaver, speaking to a young apprentice about the process of creating a tapestry. He said, “A great weaver doesn’t look at the completed side of the tapestry until he or she is finished with it. This person
The shift from self to service
Spiritual practice can be a funny thing. I always long to be there, and then when I am, my mind wants to be somewhere else, doing something else. The ego throws its subtle little conniption fit, like a toddler that knows instinctively when your attention is elsewhere. This morning I was blessed to be able to experience some time alone in the house. No matter how much you love your significant other, and I do, someone else in the house creates a pulling energy of some kind. Th
