Month: January 2021

As children of the eighties, my wife and I are huge fans of the band U2. A blog about oneness, would not be complete without incorporating their song, One.

Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright expands the concept of the hero’s journey to organizations. I originally read it years ago, as I was building my team, to help us develop our culture.

David Hawkins’ “Map of Consciousness” lays out a calibrated scale of the states of consciousness. Most individual states of consciousness only increase a few points over the course of a lifetime

The color blue brings me joy. In many instances, you can only see blue from far away and when you try to get close it vanishes. Water, ice and sky, in their vastness, can all be seen through many shades of blue.

According to author and speaker, Brian Tracy, only three percent of people have written goals. How many of these goals are related to external rewards such as money, cars, and fame?

Steve Jobs was a deeply spiritual man. He planned out every aspect of his funeral in advance. Each attendee left with a copy of Autobiography of a Yogi.

If love and fear are just parts of the whole, then why do the emotions associated with love feel pleasant and those that come out of fear feel uncomfortable?

I’ve heard it said that there are only two basic emotions, love and fear. All positive emotions and states of mind stem from love while the negative ones come out of fear.

What if we set an intention to use Kahneman’s System 2 with more regularity to question unconscious beliefs? To be a maverick and deliberately question our unconscious beliefs, this is what it means to truly think for ourselves.

Good is better recognized when compared to bad. Yet, we know quite well that there is no such thing as good without bad. Either/or is not reality.

Oneness is a an incredibly relevant topic right now. Yesterday a new President was inaugurated. It doesn’t matter to me what your political beliefs are and this blog ain’t gonna go there, but I trust we can all agree that the people of our nation appear to be divided.

As I move through the activity of life, there are signs that reinforce this message and I find them all around me. It is my intention to share these messages with you.

We all know people with fixed mindsets and others with growth mindsets. The reality is that most of us, at times, can demonstrate both.

If you’ve taken a Yoga class, chances are you’ve been asked to chant “OM” as part of the experience. I’m guessing that most people just accept that this is a part of the tradition and don’t necessarily question its meaning.

I’ve never had any trouble writing goals in other categories of life, but I’ve always felt a little lost writing spiritual goals.

On this journey called life, no one else can experience our consciousness for us. We can follow the crowd or we can think for ourselves.

What differentiates man from animals is our ability to think beyond percepts through abstraction and the formation of concepts. Apple is a word, but the word is not the thing itself.

In our one universe, there is plenty of room for both science and spirituality together in harmony. Discussions of the “One Teaching” would not be complete without a review of neuroscience!

Tao Te Ching was written by Lao-tzu thousands of years ago and is the foundation of Taoism. The title translates from Chinese to, “The Book of the Way”.

Yesterday we discussed four stages in the sequence of personal growth including survival, stability, success, and significance.  The question was posed as to whether significance is the final destination or if there is something beyond, in other words, transcendence.  One of the descriptions of significance that I found online and mentioned yesterday, called it a …

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In the world of personal development, there is a path that each of us must follow, with definite milestones to mark our growth. The sequence along this path includes survival, stability, success, and significance.

The ancient Hindus introduced mankind to the chakras which represent centers of energy within the body. Curiously, the chakra system seems to point to all the same concepts that Maslow discovered through his research and resulting hierarchy of needs.

Social media attempts to fulfill the basic human needs of love/belonging and esteem. When we post something and others respond, it feels good. Are the effects lasting?

In 1943, Abraham Maslow wrote a paper called A Theory of Human Motivation where he shares what motivates us. In our discussions of the “One Teaching,” I find these conclusions to be quite interesting.