I love Christmas and celebrate both the holiday and the holy day.
The Holiday
The holiday is both a source of cultural delight and pain. The bespangled pine trees, holiday cards and greetings, the lights strung in store windows and across streets and byways, the gifts, the food, the cookies and candy, the carols—all add to the holiday’s festive flare. Continue reading
Vertical Growth—Horizontal Distraction
True growth is vertical. A rare few soar to new heights of self-awareness, as they dig deep into themselves to heal repressed trauma and liberate buried magnificence. This profound dialogue between depth and height is the way new consciousness grows. These rare few use love and work to evolve life to the next level of awareness and meaning.
Most people, the unconscious masses, mistakenly call horizontal development—growth. Love and work serve selfish, violent ends that are unsustainable and destructive of life. This is the norm. Continue reading