With all this talk of Spring Cleaning, I just would rather hibernate. I think bears have a good idea to skip the whole winter wonderland and just sleep for months at a time. Can you imagine eating so much that you wouldn’t need to eat for a few MONTHS? What an amazing process.
In some sense, [...]
I have recently started reading the book: Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, described as a “practical guide for enlightened living.” In it, author Trungpa talks about breaking old habitual patterns. He says that calling someone a toranoko- a Japanese term for tiger cub, used pejoratively is saying this “you mean that he is [...]
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As the month of February takes off…the topic of connection is at hand. But, how about going beyond our connection to each other, and exploring our connection to the animal realm? Winston Churchill once said, “There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a (hu)man.” What is [...]
Often the way we feel about a particular person is reflective of what that person represents within us. That is to say, if there is something we do not like about someone else, it may represent a shadow nature that we, ourselves,possess. This is Carl Jung’s classic idea of shadow projection, and a [...]
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