create a non-striving business
What is play consciousness? The most enlightened people on the planet look as if they are having a blast all the time: they are happy. They are at play. The same is true of many millionaires: they love the game of money. I believe play is the most creative state that humans engage in and is a key factor of prosperity.
When something feels out of your control, it usually is. The problem is not the thing that's out of your control. The problem is that you are trying to hold on to it and control it, when you really can't. Suffering arises from trying to control the uncontrollable. Imagine trying to control a wild horse. Trying to ride … [Read more...]
Do you feel guilty because you don't eat organic veggies? Or have a regular exercise routine? Or write every day? Or some other ideal that you carry around that you have never quite gotten yourself to do? On the outside, these would be positive changes. They would make you feel better, look better...be better? Well, … [Read more...]
When you have made mistakes, or are in a desperate place, it's easy to fall into the habit of criticizing yourself or beating yourself up. There is often a voice that says something like, "I need to beat myself up to keep myself on track. If I don't, I might become lazy or worse and then I'd REALLY be in trouble." So you … [Read more...]
This is how I define God: a felt sense of the interconnectedness of everything to everything else, and the subtle harmony that runs through it all. And the "felt" part is what I want to talk about here. Things are interconnected whether you feel it or not. And that field of interconnectivity is there whether you sense it … [Read more...]
Hope can be a wonderful thing, but for many of us it has been a coping skill, not a living skill. Hope is a feeling that a desire will be fulfilled someday. Hope can be good if you are just coming out of despair. Hope can be that motivating factor where you realize you really can have a beautiful, prosperous, joyful … [Read more...]
I was browsing in the library today and a book on the Kabbalah jumped out at me. Now I thought Kabbalah was this arcane thing with strange symbols and a lot of numerology. So not! This book totally clicked something into place for me around why life is difficult. So the whole idea of "we have to suffer to learn" never … [Read more...]
Whenever we are engaged in an activity that we don't want to do, we are acting in opposition to ourselves. Part of our energy is going towards doing the activity. And part of our energy is going towards resisting doing the activity. This energy shows up in procrastination, inner disharmony, suppression activities … [Read more...]
Sometimes I get lost in focusing on money and business and lose sight of my playful side. I start feeling grumpy and sluggish and think "Why am I so obsessed with money?" But the truth is I'm not: money is this great game to me, as long as I'm connected to my sense of play with it. If I'm not connected, then it's just … [Read more...]
