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The Energy of Honesty

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The Energy of Honesty All emotions, all actions, all thoughts have an energy. And that energy affects each and every moment of each and every relationship. Energy cannot be faked, emotions can, or so you think. Perhaps one of the reasons our current culture is so off center has to do with lies and lies of omission. Certainly children raised with lies and lies of omission are taught, even before they are verbal, to live with, accept, love and even consider as normal, the energy of insincerity, of lies. Intimacy redefined.   When normal is re-defined, true intimacy can feel like a threat or at the very least, as an unknown to be treated with suspicion. This means intimacy with the Self, not just others. No intimacy with the Self, it is impossible to connect with your Higher Self and therefore with Spirit. You will only be able to connect along lines of corruption, corrupted energy fields that were imprinted on the undeveloped pre-verbal defenseless brain of a child. A child ...

Are you really ready for a Spiritual Teacher?

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Are You Really Ready for a Spiritual Teacher? Why would one even ask this question? These days most people cannot handle honesty, not even to themselves. Or intimacy since honesty is the keystone of intimacy; that and the tolerance to hear honesty from someone who loves you, whether it is the honesty of your beloved, or the honesty of a beloved Spiritual Teacher. Honesty takes tolerance, the tolerance to be able to listen with an open mind, ask questions, consider what is being said, seek inner Guidance and then make a decision regarding what you heard without punishing the other person for speaking or without you leaving the relationship because you cannot tolerate another opinion or a different viewpoint. It takes enormous personal and inner strength to be able to have an open mind, an open heart, to tolerate diversity, to believe in yourself and your connection to Spirit enough to be able to hear something other than your own thoughts, ego and insecurities. It is Yin st...

The Strength of Having an Open Heart

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The Strength of Having an Open Heart I love the Teachers who share their humanity, their flaws, who are transparent about their own Path. Pema Chodron is one of my favorites for this reason as well as her wonderful teachings. My own Teacher is another. I never expected to have “A Teacher,” ever, especially for over three decades. I love my Teacher because that Path is designed to address flaws as well as the divine, teaching us to love them all, not to worship the divine and hide the flaws, and not to try to “excel” in so-called spiritual “gifts” or so-called spiritual “talents” or to use them to escape one’s work on Earth as an incarnated human. Choosing to be transparent and authentic is a risk; you risk vulnerability, getting hurt,   and attacks by people who will use your transparency to step on you on their way up some ladder they imagine is the key to their freedom or “progress.”   Even when you carefully choose whom you will allow to see your transparency, boun...