What If Reality Is Other Than We Imagine?

What If Reality Is Other Than We Imagine?

I recently stumbled once again across Plato's Allegory of The Cave, and his captivating phrase, "shadows on the wall." In short, Plato proposes that until we humans awaken psychologically and spiritually, we are not seeing or experiencing reality, rather our projections and impressions of that reality.

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All My Relations

All My Relations

The phrase "All My Relations" has been a curious one for me for some time. Undergirding it is the idea that somehow, inexplicably, despite appearances of separation, we are connected at a most fundamental level. Any time we profess love in a unilateral fashion as a single relationship, it must expand to bring in everything.

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Speaking True: Best Coaching Ever

Speaking True: Best Coaching Ever

Some years ago, I had one of those great learning opportunities that come to us as people, professionals, etc. What that opportunity taught me was that maybe sometimes just listening really is the best value we can offer. I realized that's a little harder for those of us who think with our egos.

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Speaking True: Enneagram Virtues

Speaking True: Enneagram Virtues

In my professional human development world, I spend a lot of time working with psychological assessments. One of the things I really like about the Enneagram is the way it thinks of us as humans. It doesn't think you ought to be different. It knows that you are who you are, you're baked the way you're baked.

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