Spirituality
When we are healthy we have a sense of what is enough. We don’t eat until we are sick, we spend enough by ourselves and enough with others, we know when our muscles are tired from exercise, we know when we have done enough of a particular activity. Which makes greed interesting. I think greed [...]
The biggest difficulty for Donna with living an authentic life is to do with trust. Donna commented on this post – where I asked you to tell me your difficulties with living authentically. For her the issue of trust comes up in a specifically Christian context – being ‘remade’ by Christ, she quoted from the [...]
Continue reading about The Fear of Losing Ourselves Part 1 of 3
In this post I asked you to tell me your biggest difficulty/problem/challenge with living an authentic life. This post is my response to the comment I received from Christian: For me – it’s living up to a certain individual. Striving to be more like Jesus Christ. To me, and my beliefs, he emulates all that [...]
Continue reading about Living Up to Our Ideals in Self Development
In the last post I talked about the paradox of discovering who we are, in this post I want to delve a bit more into how this happens. Becoming more truly who we are sounds paradoxical, and it requires a paradoxical kind of discipline I think. Becoming who we are can be hard work and [...]
In this post I asked for your help by letting me know your greatest difficulty with living authentically. The first answer I wrote was a series of posts about speaking our truth and still being kind to others. This post is about ‘allowing’ rather than forcing ourselves to grow, in the next I’ll go [...]
The new and better way of living is already with us. Individuals are Living in Better Ways Today many thousands of people are stopping the passing on of domestic violence and child abuse by creating relationships of respect with their spouse and care for their children. This doesn’t make the papers but is enormously positive [...]
For all our sakes. Our old way of living presumes scarcity in an abundant world. This leads to hierarchy and violence. We have enough for everyone’s need, not everyone’s greed. – Ghandi Our old way of living presumes stress and being unkind to ourselves (usually called ‘discipline’) is somehow beneficial – if not now in [...]
This is part two of my interview with Daniel Brenton from Gratitude Watch, about authenticity and gratitude. You can read part one here. In this part we explore more about gratitude and how it relates to authenticity. Daniel’s story about how he found out how important gratitude was for him is remarkable. EH: Thanks for [...]
A little while ago Daniel Brenton was kind enough to interview me on his blog, Gratitude Watch, about what I thought about gratitude. In this post and the next one I’m interviewing Daniel about what he thinks about authenticity. He shares in a very personal way about how he found his sense of purpose or [...]
When we want to change our life it can be helpful to have a map. However it isn’t necessarily a map to follow – more a map of what is going on. Awareness It is curious that sometimes just understanding is enough. We have times where we get an ‘aha’ and that is enough. This [...]
