Making Time for Time: How our Relationship with Time Causes Suffering
We believe that time, like money, and even love, is a commodity that is eternally lacking. If someone were to dare to reveal that they have a lot of time, then we often judge them; they are either ?lucky? to have a lot of privileges, like money, or simply ?lazy.? Most...
True spiritual mastery is found in the MUCK not the mountain top
This is a recapitulation of the talk I gave in my weekly FB video blog on my book: THE AWAKENED FAMILY: A REVOLUTION IN PARENTING You can watch the video here below: One of the common exercises I conduct with parents is this: I ask them to think of words synonymous...
Are you often puppeteered by culture and don’t even know it?
This is a transcript of one of my live FB blogs. To watch the whole blog click here. Without our realizing, the culture around us enslaves us to its dictates, leaving us puppeteered without our awareness. Culture decides for us what we believe is a ?good? person,...
The State of Childhood Today
When did childhood become about the number of activities engaged in, enrichment classes attended or grades on a school tests? By the time our children are in middle school they are already plagued by a competition that is cut-throat, painfully aware of the price of being average or a non-conformist. Instead of their worlds being filled with curiosity, engagement and discovery, our children are learning to be consumed with a fear of under-performing and not fitting in.
