“When the wise tell us to look within, they are directing us beyond intellectual analysis of personal thought, to a higher order of knowledge call wisdom.” — Sydney Banks This is what I know… I live in the feeling of my thinking in every moment. Conscious or not, my emotions show up as feelings in…

from “How to Succeed in Work and Life”, an Inside Out Guide for Young Professionals — My teacher, Michael Neill tells a story of teaching a group of students about the principle of Thought. About the inside-out nature of our experiences and the absolute essential nature of experience to come from our ability to think. A student stood up to ask him a question. “So, are…

“Yoga, Meditation and Prayer… I think they all live on the same continuum.” She said. “Continuum of what?” I asked. “I’m not sure”, she said, “but I have a sense that they are all connected and on some sort of continuum.” “I have a theory,” I told her, “This is…

Are you ever in a bad mood? Yes? What about anxious or fearful? I am about to tell you something about a bad mood that may not make sense at first. But stick with me. There is something profound to see here… I went to visit my mom this past…

from “How to Succeed in Work and Life”, an Inside Out Guide for Young Professionals — Resilience is built in — it is not something we need to find or discover, it is innate We were made to heal and time is our friend The amount of time it takes to heal is arbitrary and unpredictable and irrelevant If we don’t like the way we are…

1. We — me, you and them — all live in the experience of our thinking 2. Our thinking creates our reality 3. There is no such thing as an objective reality 4. We all live in separate realities 5. Really seeing another person requires taking ourselves out of the…

Confidence lives inside of us, we don’t need to, nor is it possible to go find it anywhere else We are born confident and it can only be obscured by our insecure thinking I can feel confident trying something new, if I don’t get caught in self-consciousness Confidence does not…

And a few others that I am pretty sure about — There is no such thing as a stressful job or a stressful situation Stress comes from my thinking about — conscious or unconscious Calm is our natural state, it lives in all of us before our stressful thinking and we don’t need to go find it, we can simply allow…

from “How to Succeed in Work and Life”, an Inside Out Guide for Young Professionals — “First you must learn to listen, and this will take courage.” — Sydney Banks, Second Chance I used to have a job that required me to attend a lot of meetings. I would joke that I averaged 27 meetings per week, but it wasn’t a joke. Every once in a…