Inspired Living

Jamie from Australia recently wrote, asking:

I have just read your article, I Love You, and I’m curious to know what you think about this: Is it possible for a person to truly and unconditionally love two people at the same time?

I thought only a parent-child love relationship is unconditional. It is very difficult to find a man-woman relationship that is unconditional. Am I right to say that? Does pure love really exist? Have you come across a man or woman who is able to tolerate their loved one loving another person without any feeling of unhappiness, envy, or jealousy?

Well Jamie, my definition of love knows no bounds. Yes, a person can be “in love with” more than one person at the same time — absolutely.

At times like that though, Continue reading →

The words “I love you,” are powerful; we safeguard them; we hold them sacred. Would it be weird then to say, “I love everyone?”

I do though. I love you all. Each and every one of you has your own personal brand of beauty, and I love you dearly for it.

Strength, beauty, and goodness, is in everyone and — I get it — I see it — I feel it. It stretches itself to be recognized no matter how swamped it is with anger, stress, addiction, distraction, and sadness. It is undiminished.

Your beauty, goodness, and light, is eternal and it will never give in to darkness. It was there before you were born and regardless of how you live your life, it will be there after you are gone. It is your essence — your true self — and it is what I love and see in your presence.

So there you have it. I have confessed and exposed myself. I am deeply in love with you.

My wish is that you can see and understand why I feel this way; that you will see yourself for who you really are; that you will sense the magic within, and feel the light and beauty that lives, breathes, and creates, in your soul.

These are the aspects of you that I love, and I want you to love them too.

You are truly beautiful.

Desire, and how you respond to it, determines the substance and quality of your life.

Desire is the juice of life. It courses through you like a river, carving its way through the soil of your psyche.

Desire is powerful. It moves and shapes you. But desire can also seduce you. Continue reading →

Young entrepreneurs have a huge potential advantage over older more seasoned business people.

“What?” you say? “We all know that experience is the best teacher, and experience comes with time and age.”

But experience can also teach us to fear; to play it safe by tried and proven methods. Experience can condition us to miss the moment. Instead of being consciously aware of our circumstance and its potential, we file our experience in the, “seen this, done that” category.

This lack of awareness can be fatal. If we take the moment for granted, we take ourselves for granted as well. We lose touch with the essence of our creativity and personal genius — our fuel for true success in business and in life. Continue reading →

Do you think in words and sentences, or in images and feelings?

Whichever it is, your mode of thought determines how deeply inspired your thoughts are, and how much you can creatively achieve in life by acting upon them.

Your life’s worth depends on how you think. Are your thoughts bringing you all you are worth? Continue reading →

Right away we should all dispense with the idea that we are not creative. Everyone is creative in some way, so do yourself a huge favor and let go of that thought right now. Poof… it’s gone.

There, now you can read on without wasting time disparaging yourself. There are enough people willing to do that for you without adding your own voice.

Humanity is an obsessively creative species. We can’t help ourselves. We create stuff; all kinds of stuff, everyday. And it’s not always pretty. Look around at what we have done to — or not done for — this sacred earth and our fellow human beings.

We clearly need a new and positive creative direction. And before you abdicate responsibility for the state of the world, think about this… Continue reading →

Happiness — that simple gift of quiet satisfaction. We long to be happy. We reach for it. We even cry for happiness.

But that is in our private moments. In public, we paste platitudes on the face of this sacred search. We are afraid to show our vulnerability — as if it were a weakness to crave a thing so beautiful, and as seemingly delicate, as happiness.

Our world requires “tough and smart,” so we pooh pooh the search to be happy. But where does that leave our inner longing? Continue reading →