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Muhammad Ali is among more than 110 celebrities who have exited Earth's stage since New Year's Eve 2015. Each gave us a fresh opportunity not only to embrace the reality of death, but to actually understand it. This is important. And as Ali demonstrated, if we don't understand Death, we will not successfully navigate Life. Ali understood both extraordinarily well, so well that he... Continue Reading →
We've been bombarded with coverage of the unprecedented worldwide protests following the inauguration of Donald J. Trump. But the largest march—the one primarily responsible for that ceremony—has received little mention: Millions of Evangelical Christians defiantly declared their independence from Jesus's teachings, and it's as if no one noticed. Maybe it wasn't newsworthy. After all, Christians haven't been followers of Jesus for centuries.... Continue Reading →
Forgiving others is a conscious decision to heal ourselves so that we can progress on our path, instead of being stuck in someone's stupid.
For years, I believed that Jesus died on the cross for my sins, and that I became a sinner the moment I took my first breath. That's what I was told. Everyone around me believed it. As far as I was concerned, it was so—until I began to notice that something didn't add up: Jesus... Continue Reading →
This U.S. presidential election drama is no different: The votes were cast and counted eons ago, just as the evolution and devolution of this planet were obvious in the Big Picture.
As long as we believe that we're mortal, we're going to sow shortsighted behaviors such as hatred that we're going to have to reap at some point in our eternal lives. You see, Dear Souls, everything we do while wearing a human body costume will return to us at the most perfect time, in the most perfect way.
As souls, Davis and Crowe have been alive forever, and have different karmic histories, which naturally results in different scripts with different outcomes.
Most of us believe that we're granting someone a favor when we forgive them. In reality, we're doing ourselves a favor: We're freeing ourselves from the grip of any negative energy associated with the incident. When we forgive others, we also are making a conscious choice to defer to what some call the Law of... Continue Reading →
Loud Mouth in the Balcony 