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I love this expression and feel forever changed by this addition to my spiritual vocabulary.

Money is a tool. A flow of paper. There is an abundance of it in the world. We use it all the time to buy what we need, what we want, what we enjoy, what services we would like to have provided for us.

We are worthy of money. Money is an expression of production and of love. When someone expends energy to acquire money and they are willing to give it to us in exchange for something else, it is love tha… Continue

Just a couple of days ago I was nailing my own coffin. I don't know how it happened but I began to experience signs of major depression. I was weak, nauseous, my head was hurting, my eyes were spilling tears. I was suffering feeling alone surrounded by my demons with only myself as an enemy to turn to for help. I was angry and delicate, dark, ready to shatter. In my confusion I turned to a dear friend nearly abusing his love for me by pushing my anger on to him. In this moment I don't even know… Continue

Global Reverence for the Owl
The owl is deeply connected with magic, shamanism and heightened senses throughout the ages. Some have thought of the owl as a “cat with wings” as they share similar characteristics of personality.

Middle and Far East
In some middle and far… Continue

Here are just of the few things that I have learned about in the last 24 hours that I wanted to share with all of you

This is a NYTimes article about the newest 'trend' in co-housing. A kind of urban communing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/garden/01collective.html?emc=eta1

A film called The GLOW project (Brian ... you are so ahead of your time you crazy dude you!) is premiering:

http://www.spreadtheglow.org/

Great work overseas with the help of volunteers in India:

http://www.crosscul… Continue

We teach each other how to be unhappy. We teach each other how to use caution and to believe that we have no right to be happy. We believe we are not smart enough. We believe we are not beautiful enough. We encounter something new and what do most of us do?

As children we were naturally inclined to investigate, to walk through fire because it was exciting and the adults around us said "No! Don't do that you'll break your neck!"

We use rationalization to hold us back from acting. Why am I afrai… Continue