LOVE

I’ve been wondering about love my whole life. I am just coming to the recognition that I have focused on love story, not love. Love is not a story.

Love is not adding something to your life or subtracting. 

For Valentine’s Day, I want to ask you to spend a few moments being conscious of stillness, gazing and love. 

STILLNESS

Stillness is mysterious, magical, cosmic. Stillness lives behind and embraces all activity. 

Be still. 

Imagine no attention, no attraction, no arousal, no anxiety, no anticipation.

Imagine no memory, no movement, no mastery.

Imagine no judgment, no intention, no desire.

Simply be still.

Your heart still beats.

Your eyes still see.

Your blood still flows

The grass still grows

The world still turns.

The sun still shines.

While you are still.

Because you are still, you can gaze.

GAZING

In almost all my in-person talks and workshops, I lead a gazing exercise. I ask people to pair up, sit facing each other and for one glorious minute to simply gaze at the other. It is mysterious, magical and cosmic. A gaze perceives all things. Gaze is the receptive awareness living behind all the senses. It does not reach, request or react. A gaze is not about pleasure or pain. A gaze perceives purely and simply.

Imagine gazing with each sense. What happens to smell or taste or touch if they gaze? 

Gaze at all things, including yourself. Gaze at your emotions, your thoughts, your intentions.

First comes stillness, then gazing.

If you still yourself then gaze, you will not experience a story, you will experience love.

ROMANCE

I am not asking you to deny or forego your love stories or chocolate or flowers or sex. Or having an object on which to focus the intensity of your desire.  Romance is romantic! I love it. 

But go just for a few moments to the sacred. It will bring new height, depth and breadth to your love story.

THE IMAGINE SELF ACADEMY

We have made thee neither of heaven nor of earth, neither mortal nor immortal, so that with freedom of choice and with honor, as though the maker and molder of thyself, thou mayest fashion thyself in whatever shape thou shalt prefer. 

Pico della Mirandola Oration on the Dignity of Man 1486

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In the Christian Year Epiphany is the feast of three major moments in the life of Jesus Christ:  The Arrival of the three Kings bearing their gifts of frankincense, myrrh, and gold: the Baptism in the River Jordan, and the Wedding at Cana and the miracle of turning water to wine. These events are the three essential and inspired beginnings of a destiny that would change human consciousness. I also offer insights into the gifts of the Shepherds and the meaning of the epiphany that takes place in the Temple when the young Jesus begins teaching from an extraordinary wisdom.

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Your Inner Temptations is about your changing, evolving, and developing a relationship with yourself in the vast and lonely wilderness of modern existence with all its seductions, demands, and confusions.  Inner Lent comes to strengthen your soul every winter.  

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