The Sound of My Own Voice

“Drop all “shoulds,” drop all guides. That’s the only guidance I can give to you. Just be totally alone, and listen to your own Inner voice. Trust life and nobody else. When are you going to take charge of your life? You are not children. You are not helpless. Take your life in your [...]

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“Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we’re going to be more cheerful in the future, it’s because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present. What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now.” -Pema [...]

Thinking, Thinking and More Thinking

In my classes I constantly ask you turn off the thinking mind and bring yourself into a deeper state of awareness, but I realized that I don’t really describe what I mean. So let me differentiate between thinking and awareness. The concept is easier to grasp than the actual practice of it, but this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try