Comfort is the greatest enemy of commitment. Comfort is a nicely padded, silk lined, pine box that lulls us off to sleep, forever. One may think they are committed to health, but the comfort of fatty food or the couch whispers a lullaby. One may say they want to be financially free yet the soft…
Well it’s been a great week of integration. Last weekend I did Debbie Ford’s Shadow Process and I’ll be sharing how you can use this work to enjoy more wholeness and self-love than you’ve experience before. I’d call it radical self-love because it’s about loving EVERYTHING in you, the dark and the Light. And when…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gePQuE-7s8c Gabrielle Bouliane performs for the audience at the Austin Poetry Slam. Her poetry reminds us that whatever happened to us in the past, all the details of the day, really mean nothing. What we focus on drives our life. This would be her last public performance. Gabrielle was diagnosed with Stage Four Cancer shortly…
One of my teachers said that we only have two categories everything in our life falls into: our commitments or our addictions. We can ask ourselves: “Is this an addiction or a commitment?” The US is a culture of addictions. Fatty food, cigarettes, alcohol, TV, anger, separation. Not that any of these are wrong. They…
“But when I said that nothing had been done I erred in one important matter. We had definitely committed ourselves and were halfway out of our ruts. We had put down our passage money–booked a sailing to Bombay. This may sound too simple, but is great in consequence. Until one is committed, there is hesitancy,…