The Hardest Lesson in the World?
/Let’s cut to the chase. The reason for acceptance is simple: Nothing we do can be effective when our starting point is a lack of acceptance.
Read MoreSeeing True™ is a moment of epiphany that is so pronounced that subsequent changes in direction or behavior are dramatically altered for the better. The Greeks called this “metanoia,” which means "change of mind," though it might translate better today as “a profound change of heart.” In the Seeing True framework, we focus on transformation as the desired result, and forgiveness and relationships as the spaces in which we practice.
Let’s cut to the chase. The reason for acceptance is simple: Nothing we do can be effective when our starting point is a lack of acceptance.
Read MoreMost of what we experience comes through our experience ... we translate the world. It means that everyone - everyone is having some kind of experience based on their own experience, which doesn't make ours wrong. It means that theirs too is right.
Read MoreWe see things that are not there, or things we imagine, or we believe the stories we make up about life and living. We are translators and storytellers, all of which is based on what we believe to be true. What if what we believe is not true?
Read MoreSometimes, common culture provides powerful reflections. When it come to love, once one takes the idea to heart, all we can see is all the ways we place conditions upon others, including ourselves, and even upon life itself.
Read More“Why can't the self improve upon itself?” A fine question worthy of discussion from my friend, Jay. In short, the self has only its own viewpoint as a reference. Everything self sees or does comes through that viewpoint.
Read MoreHow much of our life’s direction or choices are framed and influenced by our past? How will the rest of our lives play out? Aren’t these the existential questions with which many of us must deal?
Read MoreWe think life is happening through us, or around us, or to us, when in fact, life is us. We are not an object, nor is life static. We are an unfolding, that is emerging moment by moment, thought by thought, step by step.
Read MoreSeeing True is a framework and practice for living an engaged life through forgiveness.
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