Category: happiness

  • I’m back from Turkey & Greece

    Just thought I’d share the magic of traveling abroad. I’ve done lots of seminars and courses over the years, but nothing compares to the wisdom I gain when visiting other countries and cultures. Indeed, I think of all learning as learning about other cultures. For example, my decade of study in Enlightenment is really a…

  • Stop comparing.

    The ego-mind, almost by definition, is that comparison voice in everyone’s head. It’s what we notice in the recent oddity of Charlie Sheen or Donald Trump. For those men, they probably have a Superiority Complex (comparison of how superior they are). Most people have an Inferiority Complex. Either way, it’s the inner voice that is…

  • “Love is the wish for others to be happy.” ~Atisha

    People just don’t understand what love is, so they suffer. Most Westernized people think love is when you can’t live without someone or some object. Any doctor will tell you that actually sounds like a disease. Atisha, a Buddhist monk in the 10th Century echoed what love really is: “Love is the wish for others…

  • What is “compassion”?

    One simple definition of compassion comes from the Dalai Lama: Others, just as I do, have the right to be happy and overcome suffering. It is on the basis of respect. This week, notice if you have genuine compassion. The true state of love, of happiness, is this deep compassion. And notice, this compassion includes…

  • “Pain exists to promote evolution.” ~Dr. David R. Hawkins

    I’m reading the book Power vs. Force right now. Not sure I agree with his hypothesis that you can muscle test everything in the universe. However, he has some profound insights, as a psychiatrist, into the ancient struggle to overcome the ego within every human. It is the ancient battle of higher self vs. lower…