Posts on the importance of personal growth or becoming an individual.
Have you ever seen a section of forest laid flat by the wind? This happens sometimes, all the trees pointing in the same direction, with a portion of their roots sticking out of the ground. The trees had grown up together, relying on each other for support. But when one of them fell, the rest…
“Well, you never know…you just never know. You just go along figuring some things don’t change ever, like being able to drive on a public highway without someone trying to murder you. And then one stupid thing happens. Twenty, twenty-five minutes out of your whole life, and all the ropes that kept you hanging in…
To do it God’s way is to be obedient to the process that is trying to unfold in your life. It means following the Tao and honoring the path of your soul. It means making yourself accountable to a power greater than yourself. It is the only life you really have to live. Everything else…
Has your soul been taken from you? Did you lose it in a dare? Is it locked within a dungeon? Have you forgotten that it’s there? Have you adapted to its absence? Have you learned to live without? Is your life bereft of passion? Do you hear its muffled shout? If your soul was held…
They say that those who live by the sword die by the sword. To this we can add, those who live by society die by society. A young man who was neglecting his deeper values and individuality in favor of a more societal path through life had the following dream. “I am in the lobby…
A woman who needed to make an important decision regarding a monetary investment had the following dream. A man says to me I must work on my ‘fournancial’ development. I wonder if I mis-heard him, but he just repeats the word ‘fournancial.’ Your dreammaker is clever and sometimes uses puns, strange spellings, and words with…
1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34…Can you figure out the pattern in this series of numbers? It is called the Fibonacci series and it is a pattern that is very common in nature. For example, flower petals and leaf clusters tend to occur in groups of 3, 5, 8, etc. Daisies, for instance,…
Are you an “average Joe”? And, if so, how do you know? Perhaps you could be quite out-of-the-ordinary, if you let the unknown flow. We live in a world of statistics. From the vitamins we take, the movies we see, the places we visit, or the way we invest our money there is a tendency…
The shadow is the term developed by Carl Jung to describe the rejected and disowned aspects of one’s personality.
Integrity isn’t a word you hear a lot anymore. Perhaps that is because it isn’t given the same value by people it once was. Or, maybe we just don’t like to think about it. If we hold other people to a high standard of integrity we might feel obligated to meet that same standard ourselves.…
