I sometimes use the metaphor of a spider's web to explain what it means to be transparent. You are the spider at the centre of the web, and all your unresolved emotions, traumas, limiting beliefs, and convictions are obstacles within the web that create resistance....
Recently, I was on Terschelling with wonderful people for a conference on infinity. When we shared what the theme meant to us, a friend explained that, for him, it was about making himself so small that he could allow the infinity of life to enter. For...
Shell may, after all, be allowed to drill for oil in the Arctic. When this news was recently announced, a wave of protests erupted against the company, ranging from demonstrators in the port of Seattle to personal appeals from my Facebook friends urging a boycott...
Marshall Rosenberg is the founder of Nonviolent Communication, a disarming and effective form of dialogue based on four simple steps. The first step involves observing what is perceived in a conflict between two individuals, making a crucial distinction between observation and the mind's subsequent judgments—what...
According to the Dalai Lama, love and compassion are not luxury goods but essential necessities for the survival of humanity. Compassion, which literally means 'to suffer together,' arises when one is confronted with the suffering of others and is motivated to take action to alleviate...
Thanks to research conducted by the Institute of HeartMath, we are gaining increasing insight into the profound intelligence of the heart. It is now known that the heart generates an exceptionally powerful electromagnetic field. Compared to the brain, this field is 100 times stronger electrically...
When two or more people meet, a complex energetic exchange takes place. The way one responds to each other's presence is dictated by both conscious and unconscious conditioning in relation to the stimuli to which one is exposed. This conditioning is determined by numerous factors:...
It remains astonishing how quickly one forgets that they are part of a greater whole. Life masterfully provides the illusion that everything one experiences is personal, something to be understood and resolved individually. One's unique perspective on the world is fully embodied, and I suspect...
The word yoga means “to connect.” A yogi consciously lives in connection with everything and everyone. In reality, it is impossible not to be connected to everyone and everything, for this underlying unity pervades all living things. As part of the human experience, however, we...
In recent years, I have cleared thousands of homes, ranging from the grandest royal estates to the smallest, most neglected cottages you could imagine. Stepping into a house to clear it is like stepping into someone’s life, because the space in which a person lives...