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On Power & Spiritual Ethics
As I contemplate, formulate, organize, and plan all the mystical and magical topics I wish to share, teach, and work on with my Patreon Community, I keep coming back to clarifying and defining for myself the abstract concepts and energies … Continue reading
Posted in Meditations
Tagged Can't Curse Can't Heal, compassion, Ethics, Magick, Patreon, power, Spirituality
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The Buddha’s Four Noble Truths
As I was working on my journaling and discussion for the next class in my Butterfly Journal workshop today, I went to an old blog post from 2012 to check on a reference I wanted to make about the Buddha’s … Continue reading
Posted in Religions & Philosophies
Tagged Bhagavad Gita, Buddha, Buddhism, compassion, Dukkha, Four Noble Truths, Love, Noble Eightfold Path, practice, Spirituality, suffering
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Butterfly Journal: Expansion (Month 8, Entry 2)
In Entry 1 for the eighth month of Butterfly Journal I discussed empathy, compassion, the differences between the two, and how both connect us to in this interconnected web of existence. Since posting that post, I have been both observing and contemplating … Continue reading
Posted in Butterfly Journal
Tagged Butterfly, compassion, empathy, expansion, intentions, journaling, Jupiter, personal growth, Spirituality, transformation, workshops, writing
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Butterfly Journal: Expansion (Month 8, Entry 1)
As compassion for ourselves, others, and the planet develops and grows, we begin to feel ourselves expand. Just by our decision to embark upon this journey of spiritual transformation, we took the first steps to leave the state of contraction … Continue reading
Posted in Butterfly Journal
Tagged awakening, awareness, Butterfly, compassion, empaths, empathy, expansion, Gaia, grounding, journaling, life coaching, Mother Earth, Spirituality, synchronicity
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Butterfly Journal: Compassion (Month 7, Late Entry)
Butterfly Journal, month 7 prompt: We’ve all grown over the past half-year. We’ve come to understand ourselves better by looking deep within. From this depth of understanding, we can now begin to grow outwards into our personal environment and into the … Continue reading
Quantum Yoga & Samadhi: Our Interconnectedness
The ultimate goal of a yoga practice and the eighth limb of the eight limbs of yoga is Samadhi, which is often described as a complete meditative state of oneness. But what does this mean? It is often thought of … Continue reading
Posted in Yoga
Tagged astrophysics, compassion, eight limbs of yoga, interconnectedness, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, oneness, samadhi, sentient beings, Time magazine, universe
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The Buddhist Teaching Hidden Under the Robe of the Ghost of Christmas Present
Most know or have at least heard of the story of Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ novel, A Christmas Carol. In the story Scrooge learned through a night of nightmares (or time travel) and self-reflection that being greedy and miserly only brought him … Continue reading
Saint Francis and World Animal Day
Today is both the Feast of Saint Francis and World Animal Day! I have been very blessed to have shared my entire life with many animals. Since birth my life has been filled with animals and full because of animals. I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Meditations
Tagged abundance, animal spirits, compassion, environment, Gandhi, Love, mantra, nature, peace, Prayer of Saint Francis, Saint Francis, San Francisco shaman, World Animal Day
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Saying Goodbye to B.K.S. Iyengar
Originally posted on Shambhala Blog:
The great, perhaps the greatest living yoga master, B.K.S. Iyengar died today in Pune, India, at the delightfully advanced age of 95. There will be many public tributes and even more private tributes as his…
Posted in Yoga
Tagged BKS Iyengar, compassion, death, holiness, Iyengar, peace, San Francisco life coach, Shambhala, Shambhala Sun, yoga, yogi
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Butterfly Journal 11th Month: Love (Entry #2)
In the last journal entry on Love, I discussed what love truly is: the highest vibrational act of unconditional selflessness, compassion, and responsibility. This quote by Hafiz, a Persian poet, sums up what love is perfectly: Even after all this … Continue reading
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