Happy Inauguration Day!

I started feeling funny a couple of hours ago.  I felt like a blanket of negativity was draped over my shoulders and over my head.  I did a wonderful chakra-clearing meditation, and yet the feeling returned.  It was a mild anxiety that felt like it was threatening to explode into a full-blown panic attack. I tried to understand where this feeling had come from.  I hadn’t seen anything on Facebook

By |2017-01-20T17:29:49+10:00January 20th, 2017|Animals, Empathy, Politics, We Are One|

An End To Exploitation

I was happy to hear of the announcement by the New South Wales government that it intends to ban greyhound racing as of July next year, and the Australian Capital Territory’s decision to follow suit. I wasn’t quite ecstatic for a number of reasons. One reason is that there is still another year of racing, during which time an estimated 180 dogs will “suffer catastrophic injuries such as skull fractures

By |2016-07-08T13:41:39+10:00July 8th, 2016|Animals|

Sensitivity

If you have been reading my blogs about what I have learned from A Course in Miracles, you will remember that the mind is split between our God mind (the part that thinks as God thinks) and our ego mind (where any perceived errors occur).  This split occurred when we decided to separate ourselves from God.  (We are never really separated from God, but we have convinced ourselves that we

Of Course!

I started another course this week: “A Course In Miracles”. I had heard about A Course In Miracles before: Marianne Williamson wrote about it in A Return to Love, and I heard Robert Holden talk about it at I Can Do It! Although they made it sound interesting, I hadn’t felt the call to read it - until now. When selecting my next course at AIHT, I knew that this

By |2014-08-30T09:35:59+10:00August 30th, 2014|Ego, God, Love|

I Love Tony Abbott

A Prayer of Compassion For those of you who have seen some of my earlier blogs and facebook posts, you will know that seeing Tony Abbott become Prime Minister did not fill me with joy.  I heard myself saying "It's not the party, I just can't stand Tony Abbott." Oops!  For someone who espouses the concept of love for all, I knew I had some work to do.  I knew

By |2013-09-08T15:20:04+10:00September 8th, 2013|Australian Federal Election, Buddhism, Politics|