Insights (2017)

•  Did not rush into telling Srini to leave
• Rush to tell Sharon re Yogi without planning it
• Did not rush into threat with Sharmista.  Sent her blessings.
• Mal Plumber under immense pressure - took personally. 
• Interplay of Essence and Substance
• Make decisions using Consciousness ladder
• Surrender - no agency, nothing personal

Non fiction books read (2017)

Idealism

• Biocentrism (Robert Lanza)

Science and the universe

• The Holographic Universe (Michael Talbot)
• From Science to God (Peter Russell)
• The Self-Aware Universe (Amit Goswami)

Waking up

• Deep Awake: Wake Up To Oneness and Become a Lover of Life (Tim Freke)
• How Long is Now?: How to be Spiritually Awake in the Real World (Tim Freke)
• Lucid Living: Experience Your Life Like a Lucid Dream (Tim Freke)
• Soul Story: Evolution and The Purpose of Life (Tim Freke)
• Waking Up (Sam Harris)
• Waking From Sleep: Why Awakening Experiences Occur and How to Make them Permanent (Steve Taylor)

Free will

• Free Will (Sam Harris)

The power of awareness 

• The Untethered Soul ((Michael A. Singer)
• The Surrender Experiment (Michael A. Singer)
• Here Now (Ram Das)

Advaita Vedanta

• I Am That (Nisargadatta Maharaj)
• Vaster Than Sky, Greater Than Space: What You Are Before You Became (Mooji)

Technology (and consciousness)

• Homo Deus (Yuval Noah Harari)

Insights (2016)

• Love the mind; the being. "Its ok my baby"
• Just notice what's here. What's here Now?
• Utter simplicity. Absolutely necessary? Space up.
• All spiritual thoughts are empty, arising from emptiness and returning to it. All pointing to this.
• May all beings be happy and free
• Watching mind and labeling
• This is a natural world, governed by natural laws, unfolding a meant to, and Life is on the journey too.
• A multiverse of different laws ?
• The totality of the universe brought me and this moment into being. Exactly as meant to be. As am I. 
• Don't act in anger or resentment (Chris, Sue)
• What is happening now? What is arising in the space I am?

Non fiction books read (2016)

The Future of God: A practical approach to Spirituality for our times (Deepak Chopra)

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (William James)

The Ultimate Experience

Just for fun, lets experiment with a conceptual way of looking at the experience of Life that has the potential to include all the religious and spiritual view-points of human beings as well as the views (experiences) of other living forms too ...


The most universal truth spoken about by spiritual mystics and enlightened beings is that We are all One

A commonly held Scientific view-point is that you, in concept at least, are nothing but space containing swirling particles, moved and held together by energy. I am the same.  The space between us is the same.  Basically the two of us and the space between us is one space, containing swirling particles and energy.

The separation between us is an illusion created by both distance and energy attachments holding particles together - and most importantly, the interpretation made of that made by the brain.  Science may one day discover that distance is as much an illusion as time.   We already know that death breaks particle attachments releasing space into space and allowing energy and particles to dissipate to become part of everything else.

Modern spirituality talks more and more about God (The Infinite) being formless and timeless; something beyond this dimension of form we live in.  What if we create a conceptual view-point where we think of God in the dimension we live in as being that which is formless?  Namely, Space.  After all, through history we’ve represented God as an energy form (e.g. The Sun), as physical form (e.g. idols or even some animals) and as a mind concept or image (e.g. A father in Heaven).  The only thing we haven’t represented God as yet is Space or “Nothingness."

Using this conceptual framework (and it is nothing more than that), the universe is nothing but swirling particles and energy contained in Space. Everything in One Space, and Space in Everything.  Space in every single form, living and non living.  And Space between all physical forms, embracing them as part of One Space.

Imagine the implications that.  A conceptual view of Truth that believes in Nothing, yet also acknowledges Everything including all points of view.  A view that provides a deep sense of the inter-connectedness and Oneness of all things, physical and otherwise, in line with realities we think we know.


Why would the Infinite choose to be Space in a world of Form?

In this room, containing you and me, right now, there is nothing but Space (God) containing swirling particles and energy.  Why?  Because God, being Formless, is having an experience of being Form in a dimension of duality (which is ultimately the polarity between spaciousness (limitless) and density (limitation).

God is experiencing this world of form through “us” in this very moment of Now.  Except, we don’t exist.  The identities we create are illusions of the human brain (itself nothing but space, particles and energy), specifically designed to perpetuate this illusion.  And God loves the illusions of the human mind and the stories it creates (including the “story” of ourselves) as much It delights in waking up to Itself within the human form. Why?  Because stories, including stories of self, are part of the experience of life for the human form.

However, this world of form is about far, far more than the experience of God waking up to Itself through the human form (and the other equally valid experiences that other religions and spirituality contain.

To think that all this is about the human form and experiences through it is one of the ultimate illusions of the human brain and is steeped in human ego.  God is having a personal experience through every living form that exists now and has ever existed. When an eagle soars, God is experiencing that through the form that is the eagle. When an ant scurries, God is experiencing that through the form that is the ant. Not just through that particular ant, but through every ant on the planet, now and past.   All life experiences through each and every life form is separate. But all separate experiences are part of One Experience.  And no single experience (whether that of a human or beetle) is any more important than another.


Maybe God is creating the ultimate Work of Art through form
We know that God is the ultimate Creator. The ultimate Artist.  Maybe this Universe is the ultimate work of art.  An infinite cosmic canvas created through forms and experiences. An eternal symphony.  Each living form and its experiences is a “dab of paint” on that infinite canvas.  Each living form and its experiences a note in the eternal symphony.  And each dab of paint and each note is a priceless and essential part of the whole.

The One Experience comprises almost an infinite number of experiences.  On this planet, this includes an experience of:

• Evolving, through Life forms, from limited to limitless - from water to land to air and into Space.
• The elation and expansion of the soul (none other than God within the form) when the form triumphs over challenge and diversity.
• The love and compassion that flows when God, experiencing though one form, connects to God, experiencing through another form.
• The joy of creating through form.  Yes, the creation of art, music, architecture and tools through the human form and all else it creates.  But also the creation of life stories, both real and fictional. And world stories like history.   The creation of thought and knowledge.  But also the creation of elaborate nests, termite cities, coral colonies created through other life forms. And all else they create.
• The joy of exploration and the discovery of new frontiers and possibilities.
• The delight of inspiration, insight, revelation and wisdom and the unfolding of profound truths.
• Waking up to the exquisite, breath-taking beauty and wonder of this world of form. Looking out into the vast night sky and contemplating the infiniteness of it all.  No wonder the soul (the space within) expands when God contemplates infinite space through form for it is the very nature of God.
• The joy, delight and laughter of God when God wakes up through form to experience Itself more and more directly, more and more undistorted by the lens of the human mind.
• And so, so, so much more.

Certainly, through the human form, there are countless experiences of peace and joy and love.    Certainly experiences of the wonder and beauty of it all. And experiences of abundance and transcendence.   But what good would those experiences be without their opposites?  Experiences of limitation, scarcity, pain and suffering?  And the soul expanding experience of transcending them?  If you were God, would you choose to experience a world like that?  A life of constant bliss and peace.  A world with no challenges and no pain required to deepen and expand the spirit, grow and triumph? No experience of expanding from the ultimate limitation (being nothing) to the ultimate freedom (being Everything.)    Surely a world like that containing perpetual heaven would feel like a kind of hell after a while?


Experiment with the concept of "God as Space" and see if it translates into a direct experience

Nothing points to truth if it doesn’t translate into a direct personal experience.  For no concept is true because the mind cannot comprehend truth.  Words are only signposts to a truth the heart can feel and the soul within can sense through its own expansion.

If you’re willing to experiment with the idea that God is the Space within you, here are practices to try.  Practices to allow God to experience the world more directly through the form you take.  To experience the joy and peace within.  To love.  To release pain and heal.  To inspire.  To have access to universal intelligence and creativity.  In a nutshell, for the form you take, to be an instrument for God ...


Create Space in your life; special time for God to breathe within “you."

• Be the Space for this moment.  The more space behind your awareness, the more God experiences this moment directly, free of the distortions of the mind and the more “aliveness” there will be.
• Be the Space for someone else through spacious listening without thought or judgement. Or through shared stillness.  If they are the space for you, God unites with God and there is an opening of the heart to deep unconditional love.
• Be the space for pain, in yourself and others, and there will be a release of dense energy which brings healing over time.
• Bring Space to ideas, both new and old.  Let God breathe life and inspiration into them and combine them with other ideas to create something startlingly new.
• Bring space to your decisions and choices.  Decide from Space (peace and stillness), not from contraction  (desire and fear).
•  Let all doing arise from Space (stillness and peace).  And bring Space into the midst of all doing too to create inspired, effortless, mindful action.
• Be a Space for natural beauty.  Be the space for a flower. Or even a pebble.  Or a grain of sand.  Let God experience it as directly as possible.  Feel the exquisite beauty and wonder of it all explode from within.
• Create Space in the body - breathe in, yawn, stretch.
• Bring Space to all your attachments.  Space loosens the bonds between forms to release energy and create spaciousness.
• Create mind Space though stillness, time in nature and whatever else quietens the mind.
• To get a sense of whether a thought tends to truth or falsehood, first bring deep Space (stillness) to the mind and body.  Say the thought out loud and bring spacious awareness to the body.  If there is a sense of expansion of the soul (space) within you, the thought is true for you.  If there is a contraction, it is not.
• Declutter to create Space.  Ditch physical stuff that is not serving you.  But most of all, ditch mental stuff - ideas and beliefs that don’t serve you. In fact, let go All of it and see what happens.
• Lie under a night sky and be the Space for the vast Space above you.  Feel your Soul expand, for that that you look out into is what You are.  Infinite and vast beyond comprehension.
• Become aware of the energy you bring to all your intentions and goals.  Is the energy spacious (peaceful) and loving?  Or full of contraction (fear and desire)?

In these ways and more, bring Space to everything in life. Experiment with all practices that help you to loosen around any contractions and densities you feel within you.  Bring Space to them.  Most of all, let go of the perceived need to try so hard for that more than anything creates deep contraction, the very opposite of Space.

As you open to space and loosen around contraction, feel the expansion and delight in the release.  Welcome to Freedom. Welcome to Possibility.  The more you open to Space, the deeper that experience becomes. And the more the heart opens to love and joy; energies that bless the world and the more Space is released through you into the world as Peace.

Insights (2015)

Spiritual

• Reading the Mystery Experience.
• Cast of characters in head & dialogues
• Radical letting go and surrender.
• Letting go of psychic tension (rushing, striving, physical tension).
• Churning for order blocks creativity and inspiration.  I let my mind be alive, untamed, free.
• Give it space to breathe. Not smother it.
• A change will require a radical change (Radical Letting Go)
• When present, it's Consciousness that experiences wonder. Sees out of eyes of this form.
• Movie: Amy leading to universe as art.
• Life is Consciousness’s epic masterpiece of art, each of us a brushstroke.
• Slow and easy, my friend, All is Well.
• Am I here now?
• Test for truth: What expands the soul.
• God is experiencing Life through each living form. A symphony.

Other

• Stop avoiding and face it.  (leak)
• Plan ahead to avoid last minute stress (balcony)
• Power of a bit at a time (SA blog, Evernote migration)
• Need to be more decisive (state preference)
• Need to let go of need to impress (Chrisel)
• Not rushing into floors solution - evolved

Mystical experience: The form I temporarily take

I had such a deep, profound experience tonight while listening to music. I felt so much love that I thought my heart would burst. I just cried and cried. Then, I felt moved to write down some of what I sensed so deeply. 

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Consciousness is timeless and formless. Consciousness is no-thing. Consciousness is everything that is.

This form named "Graeme" is a creation (expression) of Consciousness. Just as this time based universe of form is a creation of Consciousness ...

- A way for Consciousness to experience itself through form.

- A way for Consciousness to delight in the universe of form it has created.

- A way for Consciousness to experience itself in a world of duality...  to experience itself as the light it is in a relative world of light (it) and dark (absence of it).

- A way for Consciousness to create; for Consciousness is infinitely creative.

- A way for Consciousness to awaken to itself.

Consciousness is pure Love. Underneath this world of form, there is nothing but PURE LOVE.

Knowing this is to fall into a sense of pure trust and peace that All is well, that All is perfect, that All is as exactly as it should be.

The "I" named Graeme is an illusion. A fantasy created by the mind. Letting go of that illusion allows Consciousness to wake up through this form named Graeme.

When the mind of this form lets go and pure awareness emerges, it is Consciousness itself that is aware through this form.

When the mind lets go and there is a deep wonder and love for it all, it is Consciousness itself delighting in the world through this form.

When the mind lets go and creativity and inspiration flows, it is Consciousness itself creating through this form.

This form named Graeme (including it's mind and ego) is perfect for Consciousness to experience what it is here to experience.

When the mind of this form loses itself completely in thought, judgement, fear, pride, guilt, shame or anger, Consciousness becomes trapped in that and "falls asleep"  until awareness re-emerges and it wakes up again.

This form named Graeme is not unimportant or immaterial.  Quite the opposite.  It's a perfect expression of Consciousness.  Perfect in every way for the divine purpose of Consciousness to unfold.  Wondrous and miraculous. Vital and precious beyond words. Honour this form.  While letting go of all attachment to it and identification with it.

The intention of this form named Graeme is to let go of the mind and ego to become pure awareness.  To allow Consciousness to wake up to itself.   To become an open space for Consciousness to flow into the world.  A space for Consciousness to delight in the world.  A space for Consciousness to create.  A space for love, compassion, kindness, wonder, inspiration, peace, and joy to flow.

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One of my intentions on my spiritual journey is to let go of the mind-made sense of "self".  The "story of me" that the mind creates. After all, it's just a carefully edited, selectively remembered fantasy.  An illusion that exists only as thoughts. It is not Who I Am. And in my experience, the more I attach to that story and get my identity from it, the less Consciousness is able to flow through the form.  Because with it inevitably comes energies like guilt, shame, desire, pride and fear, all of which "suck up" Consciousness rather than allowing it to flow into the world.

To give up the mind made sense of self is to become a Space that allows Consciousness (The real Self that I Am) to flood through.  And with it flows inspiration, wonder, compassion, peace and most of all, Love, for the benefit of all.

Having said this, "I" have temporarily taken on a form. The form "I" take has a body and a mind.  All inherited. All perfect creations and expressions of Consciousness. All created for the divine purpose of the universe to unfold.  Especially for the purpose of Consciousness to awaken to itself in this world of form.  Even the ego I have inherited (seen by some as the "enemy") is perfect for Consciousness to experience what is wishes to experience, until I am able to let it go.  And as  Eckhart says "Without the ego, there would be no awakening."

When I am able to honour the form I temporarily take, and feel a sense of wonder in it, as a perfect expression of Consciousness and a way for the universe's divine purpose to unfold - but without getting my sense of identity from it - then letting go of the little self and awakening to the real Self becomes easier.

Non fiction books read (2015)

Idealism

• Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe (Robert Lanza, Bob Berman)
  
  

Releasing emotions

• Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender (David R. Hawkins)

Insights (2014)

• Everything is perfect.  Innate perfection in every single thing. 
• Love is all that's real. All else is a lie.
• My purpose: love and laughter, wonder and wisdom.
• All thoughts that are not loving or peaceful are a lie.
• I am …  It is …
• Love it all. Hate nothing. Love what is.
• Approval / disapproval is just someone's story (opinion.) Not worth anything as not certain of it.
• My job is to to approve of myself, not seek approval or love externally.
• I am breathed. I am thought.
• Don't take anything personally. Their projections.
• Whose business is this? Mine? Hers? Gods?
• Conscious of psychic energy drain (energy parasites) - track energy
• Plan ahead as much as I review past. Plan trips like military operation.
• It's all about raising my state of consciousness. Ladder of consciousness.
• The power of intention.  Set intention. That's all I really have control over.
• Treat myself with the love and respect of a cherished friend.  Infinite patience and compassion.
• No more Mr Nice Guy. Meet my own needs.

Louise Kramer

Sessions with Louise

• I heard about Louise through Nerium through Louise's relayed wisdom: "You do the best you can with where you're at." The best you can at the level of consciousness you're at.
• Introduced me to Don Miguel Ruiz. Don't take things personally. A person perceives you through their story.  Don Miguel happened to be doing a presentation in Sydney which I went to.
• Introduced me to Byron Katie and The Work.  Inspired my "enquiry" and "assurance."  Helped me get over Dani and hellish thoughts. Also transcend judgements of others.
• First person I spoke to about Wisdom Trove. Gave her access. She gave me a lot of encouragement, especially about approval seeking.

Approval seeking (something I wrote, inspired by our sessions)


My need to be approved by others is my own need to be approved by myself. To seek approval is to assume I'm not whole.

In seeking approval, I pay a heavy price ...

• I waste energy and time, the precious stuff that life is made of.
• I'm driven to try to manipulate you and your mind.
• I stop sharing all of myself.
• I sacrifice my uniqueness in an attempt to fit in.
• I pretend to be who I am not. Then when you say "I love you," I can't believe it, because I know you're loving someone that doesn't exist.
• I put my happiness in another's keeping, making myself their hostage, and I become easy to own, control and manipulate.
• I make everyone my judge, opening up the fear of rejection.

Approval seeking is bound to lead to failure and pain ...

• It's impossible to control what others think.
• It's impossible to please everyone. In fact trying to do so is the surest way to fail.
• Even the warmest and most sincere approval can be taken away at any time for any reason.

External approval is actually worth very little ...

• When someone says they approve of me, I can never know for sure if it's sincere or even true.
• The approval of another is just their projection; part of their story. When someone approves of me, they're approving of their story of me; not me myself.
• Approval can be taken away at the snap of a finger.

Letting go of the need for approval brings wonderful rewards ...

• I am able to be me. That's true freedom.
• My eyes are opened to my natural wealth and I start gaining my own approval and respect.
• I become a student. I'm totally open.
• I become tranquil and peaceful.
• Paradoxically, the less I care about seeking approval, the more I tend to get.

I free myself of the need to seek approval from others ...

• Life is too short to waste time waiting for other people to approve of me and how I live my life.
• I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.  And to be a loving space for consciousness to flow through me.  If others approve of me, that's wonderful. And if they don't approve of me, that's good too. It doesn't effect my life or happiness.
• The only person I want approval from is me. Instead of seeking love and acceptance from others, I work on loving and accepting myself.
• I don't want people's approval. I want people to  think the way they think. That's love. I focus far more on recognising the treasure in others than on trying to get them to recognise the merits in me.
• I realise deeply that the source of what I seek externally is in me already. I am perfect and complete with everything I need right here, right now to be happy. My happiness depends on nothing external, including the approval of others.

Non fiction books read (2014)

Spiritual awakening

• The Mystery Experience: A revolutionary approach to spiritual awakening (Tim Freke)

The map of consciousness

• I: Reality and Subjectivity (David R. Hawkins M.D. Ph.D.)

Enquiry and assurance

• Question Your Thinking, Change The World: Quotations from Byron Katie (Byron Katie)
• Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (Byron Katie )

Don Miguel Ruiz

• The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (Don Miguel Ruiz)
• The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery (Don Miguel Ruiz)

Experience curating

• Experience Curating: How to Gain Focus, Increase Influence, and Simplify Your Life (Joel Zaslofsky)

Assertiveness

• No More Mr. Nice Guy (Robert Glover)
  
  

Insights (2013)

• God is in the stillness. I love God more than thought.
• My purpose is to be a calm, loving space for consciousness to flow into the world.
• Who I am cannot be harmed, threatened or diminished.
• I need nothing external to be complete. I am complete. I am love.
• Guilt is caviar of the ego and low on the consciousness ladder. Remorse, resolve and move on.
• I have the perfect ego and mind and pain body to learn what I'm here to learn.
• The purpose of life is to learn, grow, evolve and enjoy.
• The mind is inherited and thoughts are not real.
• Don't make sex into a mind construct - take mind out of it.
• The power of letting be, letting out, letting go, letting flow.
• Turning "not enough" into "so much." (abundance and gratitude)
• Be a space through loving what is.
• Trust life's unfolding and welcoming what is - no need for fear. All for my higher good.
• The power of processing emotions without identifying or creating a story.
• Grieving Dani is ok and understandable - there's no time limit.
• The need to impress is an archiles heal. External approval is just my projection.
• Listen without advice.  Who am I to know what's best for another.
• Let go of judgement. Let her be. Let me be. We all have different egos and pain bodies.
• We do the best we can at the consciousness we're at. Let go of guilt.
• Consciousness that flows is forever, energy sucked into the ego drains and dies.
• The story of me is an illusion - subjective, edited, selective perception. Will die.
• Negative states of mind are a delusion caused by inappropriate attention and exaggeration.
• Never try to think myself out of a low mood.
• Divine Essence is not out there.  It's everywhere.  Its in me. It's who I really am.
• I'm not here to annihilate the ego, but heal and lighten it and let it go.
• Thank the mind.  Let the mind be free. It's not an enemy.
• Consciousness is about intention. Why am I doing this? From love. Or to impress, from fear?
• There are no tests or punishments.  Just consequences and opportunities to learn and evolve.
• Life is an experiment to see what works. Try new approaches.  
• Don't get lost in needless ideology.  Just a few leaves, not the forest. Pointers to love & stillness.
• Being and stillness are at the centre of my life, not something to fit in.
• I'm exactly where I'm meant to be and the past is perfect, having brought me here.
• The Map of Consciousness (David Hawkins)

Life is an epic work of art (Feb 2013)

Life is God's novel. Let him write it. Isaac Bashevis Singer

Perhaps when the Universe returns to formlessness, we as Consciousness will get to view a collage of Life's moments of grace - moments of pure love, joy, triumph, insight, inspiration, passion, courage, tenacity, wonder and beauty that occurred in time and form. 

But would those moments of grace really mean anything at all without the backdrop and context of pain, sorrow, suffering, difficulty, challenge, adversity, hardship, fear, ugliness and even hate?  What would a movie or book be worth if it were about nothing but living happily and perfectly in non- stop peace and harmony?  What would the story of Life and it's awakening to Itself be if it were just non stop light with no dark?  

As human beings, we love to create, watch, read, tell and be inspired by stories.  We love stories and epics and dramas with hardship and struggle and the victory over it and we love fairy tales with heroes and villains.  Maybe this part of us is inspired by our Divine Essence.  Maybe Consciousness loves stories as much as we do.  Maybe, at the end of time and form, Consciousness, of whom We are all merely temporary expressions, will watch a reel of Life's highlights and be inspired and moved beyond anything that can possibly be described. What a work of Art that would be. How epic. How sublimely beautiful. Joyful. Sad. Poignant. Profound. Inspiring.  

Non fiction books read (2013)

The map of consciousness

• Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior (David R. Hawkins)
• The Eye of the I from Which Nothing is Hidden (David R. Hawkins)

Mindfulness

• The Happiness Trap: Stop Struggling, Start Living (Russ Harris)

Spiritual principles

• Worldwide Laws Of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles (John Marks Templeton)

Relationships

• The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire (David Deida)
  
  

Purpose and passion

• Find Your Passion: 25 Questions You Must Ask Yourself (Henri Junttila)

Wisdom for life

• Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter (Hal Urban)

Insights (2012)

• Mindfulness - watching, letting it be.
• My Divine Being.
• Consciousness behind presence. Purpose to allow to flow into world.
• Non resistance to pain - watching it.
• Adversity and suffering has its gifts - growth, learning and spiritual awakening.
• Learn from failure and mistakes.
• Personal productivity and time management
• Minimalism, declutter
• What would love and peace do now?
• Let go my the story of me - it's just a stream of thoughts.

Non fiction books read (2012)

The power of Presence

• The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle)
• A New Earth  (Eckhart Tolle)
• Stillness Speaks (Eckhart Tolle)
• True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness (Adyashanti)

Happiness

• The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want (Sonja Lyubomirsky)
• You Can Be Happy No Matter What: Five Principles for Keeping Life in Perspective (Richard Carlson)

Soulful purpose

• The Power of Intention  (Dr. Wayne W. Dyer)
• The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful and Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms (Danielle LaPorte)
• Life on Purpose: Six Passages to an Inspired Life (Brad Swift)

Manifesting

• The Secret (Rhonda Byrne)

Productivity

• The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich (Timothy Ferriss)
• Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life (David Allen)
• Zen To Done: The Ultimate Simple Productivity System (Leo Babauta)
• Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time (Brian Tracy)
• Get-It-Done Guy's 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More: Transform Yourself from Overwhelmed to Overachiever (Quick & Dirty Tips)  Stever Robbins
• Time Power: A Proven System for Getting More Done in Less Time Than You Ever Thought Possible (Brian Tracy)

Focus and innovation

• Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography (Walter Isaacson)

Simplicity and essentialism

• Inside-Out Simplicity (Joshua Becker)
• focus (Leo Babauta)
• The Effortless Life (Leo Babauta)
• Zen Simplicity (Leo Babauta)
• The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential...in Business and in Life (Leo Babauta)
  
  

Finances

• Rich Dad Poor Dad (Robert T. Kiyosaki)

My Spiritual Compass

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.  Lillian Smith

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I believe...

• in a benevolent universe that loves me completely
• We are sacred spirits on a sacred journey and love is what we are
• I am the sacred witness within and love, joy and peace are at my core
• This moment is perfect 
• I am enough as I am
• There is more than enough
• Simple and focused is beautiful
• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage
• Stillness is my path to peace

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Living in the moment

• I let go to you, Great Mystery, and open out to your  wonder, wisdom, stillness, beauty and love
• Thank you, Great Mystery, for this golden moment of Now  
• Free in this moment to let it out, let it be, let it go, let it flow
• Free in this moment to be inmost calm and still
• Free in this moment to be fully present

Centred in you, Great Mystery,

• I come home to myself and to life
• I cherish the sacred spirit in each person I meet
• I do what I love to do, creating with love and passion
• I create powerful intentions, beliefs and habits
• I explore with fascination
• I'm thankful for all that is good in my life
• I celebrate wonder and stillness
• I share fun and laughter
• I rededicate myself again and again

My Values

• calmness, gratitude, stillness, passion, love and affirmation, adventure, courage, fun, simplicity, balance

Some Favourite Authors

• John Kehoe
• Deepak Chopra
• N.D. Walsch
• Eckhart Tolle

Insights (2006)

The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle)

• I am not my body or mind but the witness of my thoughts and emotions.
• Consciousness I am. The same Consciousness we all are.
• The power of the present moment. Allow it to be as it is. Be the aware space for what is.
• Rest deeply in awareness (Presence).