Archive for Letters from Dreamers

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

by Helen Pratt One of the very first exercises suggested to me on my journey to freedom was using a mirror. I was to look at myself in the mirror and say “I love you” in my head and even out loud. I was to send love to my reflection every day, several times a [...]

Judgment and Comparison

by Karen Harbour I always thought of myself as someone who did not judge. I felt compassion for all people, with all their differences and foibles. I accepted everyone just as they were. At least, that is the lie I believed for decades and decades. When pushed, I could agree that I did make discerning [...]

A Mutant’s Dream

by Jacob A mutant is a new organism that rises up from an alteration in the current one. The word conjures images of long-nailed creatures emerging from green slime, horrid disfigured humans living in the sewage system, shrieking housewives behind their shotgun armed husbands, and, less imaginatively, simply regular people or animals, but with an [...]

Freedom versus Habit

by Norb Yates I never believed that I had real personal freedom. I believed I was limited by outer circumstances, events, people and obligations. My habits and my beliefs set the boundaries of what I could and could not do. Real freedom came from breaking the addiction to my habitual patterns. One particularly powerful response [...]

A Dream of Love

by Jamie Gilroy Last week we took a vacation to Sedona AZ. Not that we really could afford a vacation at this time, but my business is extremely slow and my wife and I were depleted from a VERY long, hard winter, so we needed a break. You could say that our Dream is in [...]

A New Perspective on Home

by Nina Palmierie Where is home, really? What is it that we are we calling home? The place we live we may identify as home. Perhaps we feel at home in our relationship with our mate or our children. All of these are outside securities that make us feel safe. But what really is home? [...]

Loyalty

by Aaron Landman Throughout this teaching, we have all heard the use of the phrase ‘war of beliefs’ in context to our own evolution. The war becomes apparent when we first see how we are using our attention. Whatever gets our attention wins, so we must make conscious choices. I remember a time where every [...]

Time, See What’s Become of Me

by Harold Rice-Erso I recently had the joy of taking my 16 year old son Gabriel to a brilliant performance of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” – Edward Albee’s intense depiction of the way people live their lives and relationships from the perspective of fear. In this play, we see four individuals blaming each other [...]

The Fighter and The Warrior

by Pradeep Gidwani When we come into this world as humans, we have no idea that life is a struggle. As we grow we learn how to struggle through observation and practice. We learn to be on guard and ready to fight for any reason. Fearing opposition becomes a normal reaction. Defending our beliefs becomes [...]

Service

by Carolyn Duval I can remember the first time I heard someone say that they were in service to the higher good of humanity and it had a tremendous impact on me. There was something grand about how that sounded — something selfless, a taste of sacrifice and giving and piety. It had a spiritual [...]