by Lily Forester | Jun 23, 2021 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 260 Addicted to Thinking In our meditation, or in our daily lives, when we exercise presence we might quickly become aware that our mind produces thought after thought, a never ending train of thoughts. They seem to demand our attention, and we might get...
by Lily Forester | Jun 22, 2021 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 259 Showered with Love Many times when people pay us a compliment, we might stop and add conditions, or say “I’m not that great.” We might even forget to say “thank you” before we dismiss the nice thing that was said. Likewise, if someone expresses love for...
by Lily Forester | Jun 21, 2021 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 5 Jump Around In the famous song by Kansas, we hear “All we are is dust in the wind” and “Everything is dust in the wind.” The lyrics are evocative of Solomon’s words in the book of Ecclesiastes: “All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To...
by Lily Forester | Jun 17, 2021 | short episodes
Episode 256 The Thought Buffet In one chapter of You Can Heal Your Life, Louise Hay invites us to imagine a grand buffet of all kinds of thoughts. Just like with food, some thoughts will cause us pain, and some thoughts will provide nourishment, enabling us greater...
by Lily Forester | Jun 16, 2021 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 255 The Seed of Greatness In Toward A Psychology of Being, our Teacher Abraham Maslow writes: “He who belies his talent, the born painter who sells stockings instead, the intelligent man who lives a stupid life, the man who sees the truth and keeps his mouth...
by Lily Forester | Jun 15, 2021 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 254 That Positive Part of You This inner nature, as much as we know of it so far, seems not to be intrinsically evil, but rather either neutral or positively “good.” What we call evil behavior appears most often to be a secondary reaction to frustration of...