Emerson said that Shakespeare didn’t have better life experiences than we do. He just knew how to weed out the fluff and make room for his thoughts to spread and grow into magnificent stories that survived the passage of time.
Spirituality
Janet Conner’s The Soul-Directed Life
I happened to be sitting in my hotel room on an overnight trip out of town when I discovered Janet Conner’s radio show. I listened to a podcast of her conversation with someone I greatly admire: Matthew Fox, the author of 27 books on spirituality and culture and its reinvention. Two of my favorites: THE A.W.E. PROJECT, Reinventing Education; Reinventing the Human, and The Physics of Angels.
Building Bridges through Spiritual Networking
I’m all for moving from the pyramid, top-down power structure that protects the self-interest of a limited few to horizontal-linking, with individuals at its center.
Our Shadow Selves Have Much to Teach Us
On the next sunny day, bust past any blocks you’re experiencing and check out your shadow. It’s fun. I tried it. And since no one else was listening, we had a little chat.
Lessons in Proper Behavior, A Good Kind of Crazy
Adults have turned fun into weird, exercise into work, testing one’s lungs into noise, play into bad behavior. Adults need some lessons in proper behavior.
Human Doing or Human Being?
That is what Eckhart Tolle means by “living in the Now,” allowing yourself to “be” like a human being, absorbing, oohing and aahing; not a human doing, thinking about yesterday or tomorrow.
