Illusion happens when you don’t see a thought as a thought, or an emotion as an emotion. Instead you get sucked into a vortex of importance. You give them a name and a power: My thought. My emotions. The emotion isn’t you. The thought isn’t you. Any more than your hair isn’t isn’t you. If …
Author Archives: Zareen
Newsletter: Short is Good
Published: Sat, 06/10/23 Short is Good I was really busy this week so I was sort-of embarrassed to start putting the newsletter together this morning. For my Youtube videos I had to grab little awkward moments inside the rush. I thought the content I was producing was really lame. But now that I’m putting together this …
Stepping out of the Fog
It’s a joy to step out of the fog of consumerism. These days, with global warming and pollution, it is easy to think that consuming things, buying things, is the biggest problem for the environment. But the biggest problem is the fact that we’re all consumers of life. We are consumers of happiness, consumers of …
Stop Praying to the Universe
Stop praying to the universe. The universe is cold and dark and very far away. It’s like we’ve turned the universe into our new God… our new far away, way out there God. Instead pray to the Earth. The Earth is right here. We’re on the earth. We are part of the Earth. You look …
Come to a Place of Wholeness
How do we most easily come into a place of wholeness; a place of surrender? It’s a place where you’re solid. You know who you are and you don’t get swayed by small things (or large things for that matter). So the question is… how do we come into this place? This place where the …
We Get to Make Our Own Mistakes
On a quote from Sam Lewis. One of the treasures of life is that we all get to make our own mistakes. You gotta wonder. Would you want to live a life with zero mistakes? Zero risk? We do it globally as well as individually. All of us together make mistakes. We all get to …
Unity Experiencing Unity
Sufism talks about quieting yourself down to the place where only Unity exists. Unity experiencing Unity.
You are a Force in this World
You are a force in this world so it’s important, it’s vital, that you are awake: as awake as possible. Totally awake would be a good idea… because all of us are either contributing to the insanity of the world around us or we’re contributing to the awakening of humanity. You can’t contribute awakeness if …