We are not just building our lives. We have a much bigger role. We are the architects of our own success. Architects not only design they also ensure that it can be built and used as designed. Now this can be both scary and exhilarating at the same time. Sometimes it is even difficult to…
How wonderful it would be if the dominant thought in our minds was always YES. We would be more artistic or more dramatic or even, dare I say it, much happier if we only said YES more often. It is not always easy to arrive at the destination YES (obviously a Canadian airport seeing as…
Isn’t it time to start loving yourself more. So often we are searching for something outside ourselves to feel good when in reality we need to just take a few moments to really love ourselves as we are now. Spirituality always includes sensuality. Sensuality does not always include sexuality though it does not shun it…
One day there was a pinnacle in my life and so I thought to climb it. The difficult thing was not the climb and when I reached the pinnacle I realized I had not yet achieved my goal. I stood at the top. I marveled at my accomplishment. I gazed out to the horizon. But…
Someone wrote to me the other day after reading my Blog and said “I didn’t know you were a religious person” and my first thought was “I am not”. As I responded to his kind e-mail I found myself writing that I considered myself to be spiritual but not really religious. I am not saying…
How often do we give way to negative thinking when in fact one simple positive thought could wash it all away and carry us upstream on a current of bliss? I often envision hope as a beautiful well-spring that starts somewhere unknown to me but is always nearby and available to me. The reason I…
Happiness is the natural state of mind which exists when we strip away all the worries and stories of unhappiness from our daily living. Each of us was born with a happy spirit. I believe it is necessary for the birth process to complete itself. Those spirits who cannot enter into the world happy simply…
Like so many things in modern North American society, Thanksgiving can trace it origins back to the Christian tradition. Thanks giving was actually a Christian practice that took place in church and was usually to mark a specific event and thank God, in fact it was often used for giving thanks for the righteous triumph in…
One of the necessities of life is water. Science teaches us that biological life forms all share one thing in common, we require water. The conditions of the water can vary, sometimes to an extreme and yet life can still survive there. This may be all that is required for the physicality of life but…
All of us are not just equal, we are in fact the same. Yes we have personality but underlying it is our human core. All humans follow their own philosophy, some subscribe to complex social philosophy also known as religions. Religions are really all the same. A belief, a practice, a desired outcome. My philosophy…