Photo: Geoff Wong http://www.flickr.com/photos/keepwaddling1 Like many of you, I used to report to an office five days a week, clocking in from 9 to 5 and often commuting long distances to get to work. I did that for more than 20 years. For a while, I was lucky enough to have a stint as an […]
“It wasn’t until I accepted myself just as I was in this moment that I was free to change.” Carl Rogers ____________________ It seems simple, doesn’t it? (At least simple on the surface level.) Living a fulfilled life, a liberated life, is a matter of figuring out how to get what you want, how to […]
No matter what the external circumstances of our life, we can work with our mind to find liberation. Spirit is the fundamental zone of liberation.
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. “Pooh!” he whispered. “Yes, Piglet?” “Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw. “I just wanted to be sure of you.” —A.A. Milne ____________ As I’ve been writing these introduction posts for each category, I’ve kept staring at “Relationships” and finding all kinds of ways to avoid it. I’ve not […]
“It is my experience that the world itself has a role to play in our liberation. Its very pressures, pains, and risks can wake us up– release us from the bonds of ego and guide us home to our vast true nature.” —Joanna Macy _____________ This section of the Liberated Life Project brings it all […]
There are people who have money and people who are rich. —Coco Chanel ____________________ I’m not making this stuff up out of the blue, folks. Everything I pour into the Liberated Life Project comes out of my own hard-learned and hard-earned life lessons. One of the most difficult was finding my way out of $32,000 […]
“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of old ones.” —John Cage ___________________________ Creativity is the lifeblood of liberation. Creativity is what helps us to see something that does not yet exist and then to bring it into existence; and to see what is already there but in a completely […]