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In order not to live continually clouded by the many wizards of deception, you must keep your will focused on pulling back the curtain. First you must never lose sight of the curtain and the awareness that there are forces just out of sight, manipulating our perception, even constructing the reality we perceive. We look…

“And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?” Matthew 7:3 Blind spots are the greatest generator of tragedies in human experience. Violence to self and others almost always occurs in a state of eclipse by one or more blind spots.…

I don’t believe in sacred texts; for me, only the highlighter is sacred. When I read texts, I highlight what resonates with my inner truth sense. This is how I hope people will relate to the oracle — take what resonates with your inner truth sense and leave the rest. This is how I hope…

“You could tell the secret of life ten times over, and it would still be safe. After all, the secret is only known when people make it real in their own lives, not when they simply hear it.” — Deng Ming-Dao (a modern Taoist sage) “It is common to overlook what is near by keeping…

The Warrior stance of the eagle — high, clear, accurate vision coupled with alertness poised for action. Th Eagle Stance is on the other side of the spectrum from the emotionally entangled personal view. It is also quite different from the slow and often incompetent decision making abilities of mind and ego joined without intuition.…

Eagles have the best eyesight in nature. They have two foveae or centers of focus that allow them to see both forward and to the side at the same time giving them an angle of vision of about 300 degrees. Also eagles see with a sharpness that is at least four times that of a…

Be wary of the sweet candy of slippery scarecrows — the sly, seductive allure of those who approach with hollow intentions. Choose your companions with infinite care. Know the difference between an acquaintance and a friend or spiritual ally. Are you hanging out with people with whom you would trust your life? Life is too…

“Murmur at nothing: if our ills are reparable, it is ungrateful; if remediless, it is vain.” Shakespeare “Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson “What poison is to food, self-pity is to life.” — Oliver C. Wilson “Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection, a sinkhole…

“The fates guide him who will; him who won’t, they drag.” — Ancient Greeks One of the core, irreducible truths of human incarnation is being subject to the hand of fate, to forces outside of our conscious control. There is a recent New Age tendency to psychologize everything, to see every aspect of health, wealth…

Your ego may judge the light and dark threads of the tapestry as good or bad, but a non-dualistic view sees them as interrelated. John Toland’s biography of Hitler begins with a quote from a Graham Greene character: “The greatest saints have been men with a more than a normal capacity for evil, and the…