The ego is a reflection of confusion and fear. With greater awareness comes the opportunity to dissolve this illusion of limitation. Much can be much greater, much broader. Everything around you that you call life, is made up of possibility. You can change things, build, improve things. This is not illusion – this is fact…

Looking back, you know that you are a survivor. You got this far! Going back to your very conception, there were hundreds of thousand and perhaps even millions of competitor sperm that you overcame. You are an almighty WINNER. In relative terms, you WON the LOTTERY of life itself! Congratulations! Do you think that is…

Indeed life has a strange way of working out. You would think there may be a grander plan, something greater than any individual part. Yet, every person is invaluable to the big picture. Without experiences of challenge and difficult, we would not learn, and the satisfaction in achievement would be lesser. Ultimately, there is a…

In Carlos Castaneda’s book, “Tales of Power,” the sorcerer, Don Juan explains what perception and why it is so important: “We are inside a bubble. It is a bubble into which we are placed at the moment of our birth. At first the bubble is open, but then it begins to close until it has…

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