Self-love is important. We cannot give away what we don't have (or don't know that we have). Just as importantly, we cannot accept love from our brothers and sisters if we do not recognize the love as it is offered. Self-love is both how we know … [Read more]
A Story to Shed Light on the Ego
In this post I talked about how projection can work in our lives, especially in terms of relationships. We project onto others what we do not want to look at in our own self, and then judge the other exactly the way we fear WE would be judged. A … [Read more]
A Story to Shed Light on Forgiveness
Once when I was a young lawyer another lawyer - a guy maybe twenty years older than me, a skillful attorney I admired a lot - humiliated me publicly. During a meeting before about two hundred other lawyers, he spoke from the podium about how he hated … [Read more]
Special Relationships as Forms of Avoidance
Special relationships reflect a decision to avoid looking at guilt and hate within by renaming them "love" and projecting them onto a partner. This only exacerbates the underlying problem, which is our refusal to be responsible for the decision to be … [Read more]
On Listening to the Holy Spirit
Here is what the Holy Spirit tells you when you listen: happiness is given; joy is given. You don't have to do anything. People hear this and panic. I have to go to work! I have to have sex! I have to have coffee! I have to floss! And vote! And … [Read more]
Interlude: Looking is the Holy Spirit
Yesterday I talked about giving our mind over to the Holy Spirit, both in terms of its content and its function. In that way, our problems end. I suggested a next post would relate to how to give our minds over. That's still coming, but here I offer … [Read more]
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