Happiness is our natural state. Happiness is the natural state of little children, to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidity of society and culture. To acquire happiness you don't have to do anything, because happiness cannot be acquired. Does anybody know why? Because we have it already. How can you acquire what you already have? Then why don't you experience it? Because you've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't...

Happiness is our natural state. Happiness is the natural state of little children, to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidity of society and culture. To acquire happiness you don't have to do anything, because happiness cannot be acquired. Does anybody know why? Because we have it already. How can you acquire what you already have? Then why don't you experience it? Because you've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't...

While it's often fashionable to dwell upon what might have been, what's usually overlooked is that, really and truly, it couldn't have. Because, invariably, any romanticized versions of how things "might have been," are based upon fictionalized versions of the past. You see, most of the time when people think the present could have been different from it is, it's because they think the past was different than it was. Happily, the future can still be anything, when you surrender to the...

Be before you become. What does this mean? Read it again dear one. BE. When you are experiencing life you are not experiencing darkness. Never conclude the next hour, the minute, the next day. Comparison is a destructive force when all you seek is survival. Always something more. ASM. No no no. As Soon As Syndrome. As Soon As __________, then I’ll be happy. You know better, don’t you? As Long As _________, then I’ll be happy. You knew better before you were trained...

I earned my graduate degree in 1992 with the idea of counselling whoever as predicated on wherever I got a job. (Forever earning, aren’t we?) I began working with teens and little did I know how off beam my perception of reality had (reluctantly at first) habituated in becoming while a teenager myself. After I began working with women, children and the disconnect resulting from a mother’s substance abuse, I recall a pivotal moment, praying to my then largely “problem solving” notion of God...

Watch it several times. What can you learn?

Surrendering to who you (are) now prior to any other person, unintentionally or otherwise, labelling and describing you. It (whatever IT never was) is nearing its end when you start recognising (from day to day) how you are not taking words, gibes, and other’s opinions of you or your opinions of you nearly as personally. Anytime we are offended, it is ALWAYS the egoistic false self that has taken umbrage. It would rather be angry and guilty than be transformed. The identify crisis (more...

But if you’ve ever observed a heated debate whereby tempers are wildly absurd, one thing that becomes obvious is that one or both sides are unconsciously engaged in defending their supposed position (half believed opinion). The same holds true whenever our egoistically manufactured opinions of ourselves come under question (not even attack). And if we’re content to remain miserably reactive till the bitter end, we’ll justify our incessantly displeased temperament by saying: “The provocation...

Following on the heels of Augustine, the greatest influence on today’s hell theology via most modern Bible translations came from Jerome’s Latin Vulgate. Jerome translated this version of the Scriptures from a very inferior Latin text in the late 4th century. According to Wikipedia: For over a thousand years (c. AD 400–1530), the Vulgate was the definitive edition of the most influential text in Western European society. Indeed, for most Western Christians, it was the only version of the...

How do you stop a pattern? See it. When you are aware that you have been unaware, this is awareness. Don’t get mad at yourself for falling into it. See it and lose interests in the thoughts that used to give the son of bitch 5 star service. Have humour whilst observing the silly identity crisis. Recall occasions when you exaggerated your job title or what you actually did or some other cocktail party pomposity and then see how remarkably unconscious and silly you were. It is super...

You can’t love people and have more grace than God? Listen and wake up. Reformation and food fights got this ALL screwed up. Lord, we like exceptions. Well, we’ve got One. No one comes to the Father EXCEPT by Me. Live and love and stop existing now. WAKE UP

Words don’t work

Belonging by exclusion is a historically myopic nightmare. This young man hit truths one by one without dancing around systemic issues.

At this time in history, the contemporary choice offered most Americans is between unstable correctness (liberals) and stable illusion (conservatives)! What a choice!  There’s no real transformation in either case. Neither expelling nor excluding (conservative temptation), nor perfect explaining (liberal temptation) is our task. There are commonly two kinds of human beings: there are people who want certitude and there are people who want understanding; and these two cannot understand one...