The Practice of Your Life

The Exercise and Pursuit of a Consciously Created Life

Who is this person I’m in a relationship with?

Jun 09
2008

I’m a big fan of the movie Crash because it did an excellent job of illustrating this point:the greatest good and the greatest evil lies within us all. What got me writing about it now is a couple that I know that is going through a rocky period. I’m not going to describe details … suffice to say that it has a very familiar story line and it got me thinking of a common relationship story. They mostly follow a set path: excitement, everything fits/works, you have so much in common, you look at stuff the same way, until one day …. something happens and it’s clear that this person is not who you thought they were. How could that be? How could you have been so mistaken?

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Getting even

May 21
2008

I am a big proponent of “letting go,” as an essential practice in living my life (as a practice). That’s a very challenging thing to do when you grow up in a world that teaches you that there are people who are bad and wrong, and where there is no distinction between the behavior and the person exhibiting the behavior.

Do a bad thing? Then you’re a bad person.

One example of letting go vs. getting even that comes to mind is of a person I contracted with for considerable expense (at least for me) to do a job. I paid all of the money (not smart in hindsight) even with the job not completed, and from the moment the last payment was received the level of service… Continue reading