Usually, when we feel blocked it’s because we’re attempting to do something with our life that we don’t yet have the tools for (or we have the tools but don’t have permission – we aren’t ready to be “that kind of person” yet).
Metaphorically, the Universe is a wide open warehouse, and we’re free to walk [...]

I read a little bit from a lot of different blogs, and once in a while I’ll find something so extra special that I make mention of it here. But there’s one blog that I consistently enjoy, and each time I go there, it’s always a no-fail, no-miss experience.
Susan Minarik is a member of my [...]

I think the year 2009 should definitely go down as my “Yes Man” year. Did you see the Jim Carrey movie where he’s all despondent so a friend takes him to see an inspirational speaker who challenges him to start saying “yes” to every opportunity, every invitation, every challenge? It’s a fun movie, a little [...]

Enlightenment may not be the heavy, complicated thing we’ve been led to believe it is. And while it can take some time and commitment to change the way we think about things, we just might discover it’s not so terribly serious, sober and humorless… once we really get into the swing of seeing things with [...]

By Wayne C. Allen
Recently I mentioned the following quote from a book called Bring Me the Rhinoceros.
Happiness requires a certain surrender…. Your unhappiness is threaded through your idea of you. Happiness would overturn some things you know about yourself. Happiness asks, “Are you willing to be a different you?” Or, “Are you willing to be [...]

Just because you are up and out of bed, walking around, and engaging in activities, it’s no sign that you’re self-aware. In fact, you may be wide awake in the physical sense and physically functioning, but still have an awareness that is shut down almost completely. Ironically, being awake and “thinking” is no guarantee that [...]

Sometimes, it almost seems we have a fetish about certainty. We have this burning compulsion to always know, always understand, always be sure about everything… and if we hit a patch of uncertainty, we quickly start feeling like some kind of bumbling loser.
But stop and think with me for a moment. How can we ever [...]

Is your self growth a work in progress, or have you given up on the progress part? Have you become, instead, a work in stasis? This is not a hard question to answer. Simply look at the problems you’ve been grappling with recently. Are they the same type of problems (or the actual same problems) [...]

I was on the phone with Russ, a friend who had started a new blog a few months back. “I see other blogs,” he told me, “where every single post seems to pull dozens of reader comments, but that’s not happening over at my blog. What’s the reason, do you think?”
And I had to laugh [...]

Years ago, all through my later teens and well into my twenties, I’d occasionally have an odd feeling or impulse come bobbing up into my awareness. I’d be busy doing something else entirely, and then, for no particular reason, I’d have the urgent, hungry thought come pushing into my mind: “I want…. I WANT….” but [...]