A woman dreamed: “My close friend and I are standing on a river bank watching her husband water ski. He is having fun going back and forth, waving to us and generally showing off. We are alarmed, however, and try to signal to him that there are some sharks closely trailing him, eager for a…
Prometheus brought light to humanity and was punished for it. Light is a symbol of consciousness, and growth in our own consciousness is typically achieved only through pain and sacrifice. The myth of Prometheus endures because it speaks to our own life experiences.
Dreams of oppression and protesting often symbolize the need to address egocentricity so as to provide greater expression to the soul.
The bible story of Jonah and the whale helps us understand the reality of destiny and its activity in our lives. Life and God sometimes ask us to do things we don’t fully understand. We may even disagree with what is being asked. You are not always going to understand the “why” behind the things you are asked to do.
Some risks make sense; they are fairly safe, reasonable, or logical. But other risks are gambles we are asked to make for God. They may seem irrational, illogical. But they come from somewhere inside us, our soul, our heart, our intuition. These are irrational risks and they are often the most magical and meaningful.
We are part of the psyche like a cell is part of the body. We are meant to assist the psyche in its ever-unfolding creation, passion, and life.
In order to grow as people, we must learn to harness our emotions, contemplate them, learn from them, express them appropriately, and let them transform us.
Conventional ways of treating depression often focus on ignoring the dark and embracing the light: “think just positive thoughts.” But real healing typically requires an authentic encounter with the dark. The seeds of new growth germinate in the dark. There is a purpose to your suffering.
No need to wait for karma. The quality of your life goes hand-in-hand with the quality of your relationship with your soul. Live your life with integrity and you will experience its deepest value.
According to a Viagra commercial I recently saw, we are in “the age of getting things done.” The advertisement shows a mid-life cowboy hauling a horse trailer behind his pickup truck. Predictably, his truck gets mired in a mud slick so he uses the two horses he’s been hauling to pull the pickup and trailer…