Category: H — Halting Identification
Even spiritual understanding can become an image of someone we think we must be. Here we notice that movement with the same openness as any other. Listening and Welcoming bring understanding into conversation, difficulty and affection. Welcoming is the “how to” of relationship.Begin with the companion chapter: H — Halting Identification.Selected readings: When Spiritual Understanding Becomes Another Identity · Relationship: Welcoming, Listening and Love Lived · Meeting Jean Klein: Listening, Welcoming and What RemainsExplore this step in the Spiritual Awakening Journey · Previous step · Next step →
Meeting Jean Klein: Listening, Welcoming and What Remains
I first met Jean Klein in 1990 and last saw him in person in 1996. Between those meetings I attended as many of his retreats as…
Relationship: Welcoming, Listening and Love Lived
Welcoming Is the Foundation of Relationship Welcoming is the “how to” of relationship. It gives Listening, Love and understanding their expression in how we meet one…
When Spiritual Understanding Becomes Another Identity
Explore how spiritual understanding can become a self-image to defend, with a four-step inquiry for meeting everyday reactions more honestly.
The Yoga of Listening: Bringing Awareness Into Everyday Conversations
Bring awareness into everyday conversations with the yoga of listening: five simple steps to notice reactions, hear clearly, and respond with care.
7 Counter-Intuitive Ways to Reclaim the Present Moment
Watch The Bridge to Now on YouTube 1. Introduction: The High Cost of the Mental Hustle In the relentless “busy day-to-day hustle,” you may notice your…
5 Life-Altering Lessons from the “Flow” of Being
You are a Living Vortex [Audio] Introduction: The Illusion of the Static Self We inhabit a world that feels deceptively firm beneath our feet, yet we…
Love: Understanding True Nature
We navigate our lives under a persistent grammatical error of the soul: we treat the most profound forces of existence—Love, Energy, and Life itself—as static nouns.…
The Power of No Now
There are no such things as now and time other than a way to describe or measure how things appear. Any attempt to point to Now…
Why the Present Moment Isn’t a Frozen Point in Time
Have you ever tried to catch the “now”? By the time you think about the present, it has already slipped into the past. We often imagine…
Yoga Beyond the Mat: A Modern Guide to Spiritual Awakening
Yoga Beyond the Mat – Move past simple fitness and into the profound territory of a Spiritual Awakening