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“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.” — Tolstoy Turn that frown upside down! You may feel alone in a toxic wasteland, but don’t give in to despair. Studies show that pessimists out perform optimists in reality testing, but in every other way — health, wealth, life satisfaction,…

What is blocking your connection to the light? Usually there is some sort of negative inner script that frames life and/or yourself negatively. Negative frames are often just below the surface of consciousness and act as filters through which perceptions pass and are distorted. For example, “Life sucks and then you die. I never get…

Grounding yourself by finding your center. According to the I Ching, you have only one obligation in life — to get your relationship to yourself right. Do that and your relations to sex, time, money, power, food, body, career, society, the cosmos, etc. will all be as good as outer conditions allow. Omit, distort or…

Access your emotionally neutral, higher thinking, cosmic vision. Ironically, what farseeing vision often reveals are the obvious truths that are right in front of our faces, but which are nevertheless hard to recognize. The personal view can trap us in the forever chaos of he said/she said. An impersonal or cosmic view requires fiercely looking…

As Arthur Eddington put it, “Reality is not only stranger than you think, it’s stranger than you can think.” Don’t cringe from the unknowable strangeness; embrace it. It is what gives your existence an edge of mystery; it is what generated your existence. Leave space around your certainties for all those unknown X factors potently…

“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.” — Tolstoy This is an abundant universe. Put quotation marks around the voices in your head that are endlessly worried about scarcity of money, resources, opportunities, romantic partners, etc. Look up at a clear night’s sky and think about how much…

View the light and dark aspects of humanity with clarity and compassion. Jung once said that when walking down the street of a big city you will encounter every sort of human type, from the caveman to the man of the future. Respect and honor those below you, those at your level and those above.…

Your inner child is peering through all the surface distractions of your life. How does he or she feel about what you have wrought in your adult life? The occurrence of this card indicates a need to locate your inner child. It’s become a bit of a New Age cliché to talk about your “inner…

As we come to believe that we need the baubles of the external world to be whole and submit to social conditioning, we become stereotyped and mechanical. Seeing the mechanical nature of our conditioned personalities can be a dark night of the soul, but is the only way for the Tin Man to find his…

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…