Josh — Finding your passion, the first thing that springs to mind is the implication of the words. It implies that one’s passion is a fixed thing that you have to find. It could be either inside or outside. You either find it or you don’t. And it seems that your whole life depends on whether you find it …
Talking from the Inner Journey
It must be about 20 years ago when I held my first talking stick. If you’ve never heard of it, a talking stick is a special small branch, it can be from any tree. It can be quite plain, or decorated with stones and feathers, or elaborately painted or carved. Sizes can vary too, but a good talking stick …
Getting Inner Work Done
Everyone I know who is growing a business confirms that it takes many years of hard work. You work all the time, you don’t get a holiday, evenings and weekends are filled with thinking about the business, planning for the business, or simply doing the work that didn’t get done. The show must go on. Developing anything new is …
Fulfilling our Potential
Do you want to fulfil your potential? This question is often used as a bait in the field of personal development. It is followed up by the promise to tell us the secrets of how to reach the promised land of fulfilled potential. Of course we all want it. We can feel our unfulfilled potential as a painful absence. …
An Intimate Relationship
In 2015 in cosmopolitan London, England, rabbis from a Hasidic sect suggest to release a decree that would ban women from driving their children to school. In Nigeria, Pakistan, and many other countries girls have to fight for their right to go to school. Discrimination, used by people to assert their power, has always proven to achieve the opposite. …
The Inner People
Do you sometimes catch yourself thinking that life is passing you by? If you set your heart on external things and the objects of your desire remain out of reach no matter how hard you try to get them, you might feel powerless, angry, stuck, frustrated, sorry for yourself, envious of others, worried and/or depressed. This would be a …
Three Difficult Practices
Recently I listened to a teaching session on video by the American Buddhist Pema Chödron on Udemy. In her introduction she talks about what she calls the three difficult practices of Buddhism. The 1st difficult practice: Recognise what is happening. The 2nd difficult practice: Do something different. The 3rd difficult practice: Do it continuously. Pema Chödron also mentions a …
A Creative Discipline
Is Self-Knowledge Management a therapy? In the year 2000, during our first workshops in Self-Knowledge Management (SKM), we were often asked this question. The psychotherapists participating in our events were particularly impressed by the effectiveness of the method. They insisted that it would make a great therapy. I wasn’t so sure. They told me it was a powerful and …
Organic Personal Growth
Every living organism needs to grow. We can also call it development, evolution, or maturing. It is one of the vital signs of life. Mystics, philosophers, and psychologists have long realised that humans are not fully developed when the body reaches maturity. We have to do something to promote the maturing process of our Consciousness. If we don’t, certain …
Living with Passion
Over the past few months I have been following several blogs offering information about ‘living one’s passion’. I’m always curious to learn something new from fellow seekers and their experience. Here’s what I learned in a nutshell: There is no quick or easy way from living a disenchanted life to making your dreams come true. Even Cinderella has to …