June 25, 2025

When I was a boy and up until early adulthood, I listened to the news from Walter Cronkite and, before him, Douglas Edwards and Edward R. Murrow, on CBS. I also watched Harry Reasoner, who was on ABC, and John Chancellor on NBC. Later, Diane Sawyer, Connie Chung, and Barbara Walters came aboard. For decades, I hadn’t seen any substantive differences in the news reported by the different networks. When a rocket went up from Cape Canaveral, when Khrushchev visited the White House and the UN, when Fidel Castro visited the US, and when President Kennedy was assassinated, all the networks reported the facts. 

June 24, 2025

Did you ever reach a last straw with yourself? I sure have. These are the times when we do something repeatedly with the same disappointing results. But after so much pain, there comes one final time that we “swear” a la Scarlett O’Hara that, “As God is my witness, I’ll never do such and such, again.” Scarlett did not directly cause her hunger, but she gives a good example of radically changing our behavior after we reach the last straw. 

June 23, 2025

The straw that broke the camel’s back was “the last straw.” How many times have we experienced a last straw? 

Maybe we had a long list of “to-dos,” and someone we wanted to please added another task that sent us over the top. Perhaps someone made lots of remarks that got under our skin, but this time, it was one remark too many, and we boiled over. It could be that someone always triggers anxiety in us, but lately, they have been doing it a lot, and today was the last straw. 

June 22, 2025

The saying “the straw that broke the camel’s back” comes from an Arabic proverb. It illustrates that even the camel, known for its stamina, can collapse under too much weight. Adding one straw to the camel’s load may seem insignificant, but it can be the tipping point, causing a critical mass of pressure that breaks the camel’s back! This idiom is sometimes referred to as “the last straw.” 

June 21, 2025

Today, let us reflect on the Beatitudes and their natural correlation with Enneagram ego and soul types.

June 20, 2025

Today we continue our reflections on the power of soul and the Beatitudes of Jesus. What more splendid understandings of the soul could there be than Jesus’s explanations of how each ego type finds their soul?

June 19, 2025

Jesus delivers the most profound description of the soul. He does this in nine separate illustrations called the Beatitudes that are recorded in Matthew 5:3-12. Remarkably, if we look closely at each Beatitude, we see that they are descriptions of the nine ego types' return to soul. I will present the first three Beatitudes today with explanations and the others in the next two days.

June 18, 2025

We cling to the idea that our role, station in life, and personality are who we are. But these are only outward representations of a mental structure called our ego and are not who we are. The trouble is that we spend much time in our egos and therefore miss out on who we really are. 

June 17, 2025

How do we silence the mind chatter that voices over the soul’s Still, Small Voice? The answer is much easier than we think. Once we’re aware of the mind chatter, we can call it for what it is - a process of our ego. And once we know that our mind chatter is simply part of the mental structure of our ego and not our true selves, we have power over it.

June 16, 2025

The soul is curious about love and healing, whereas the ego is involved in its personal story.

June 15, 2025

Some think the soul is "good" and the ego is "bad.” But this binary concept couldn't be further from the truth. 

June 14, 2025

So many people want to know how to distinguish their souls from their egos. This is a pivotal question for those interested in the journey into wholeness. How can we know if our soul is progressing if we do not even know what our soul feels like?

June 13, 2025

People often ask, "What are some examples of soul qualities?" Of course, we already know these qualities, but oftentimes their names are so familiar that we do not recognize that they are soul qualities. In other words, we frequently can't see the forest for the trees.  

June 12, 2025

Living in ego is our comfort zone. There we are in a familiar territory where we think we are safe, OK and happy. But deep inside, there is a nagging feeling that we are not doing what we want to do. So, we wonder what it would be like to finally lead our unled life, go to long-anticipated destinations, discover talents, understand mysteries, and explore relationships. Sadly, our obligations prevent these. Think of the millions who die without really having lived. They held the course; they followed the rules set out by their egos, the egos of others, and suffered, sometimes unaware of their pain and sometimes too aware of it. 

June 11, 2025

Many of us describe the soul as an invisible being whom we hope returns to heaven when we die. However, if such a nebulous description is the only thing we have to go on with about our souls, we cannot say that we have complete knowledge of our souls.

June 10, 2025

Even among spiritually oriented people, our individual souls are not a usual topic of discussion. But why wouldn’t they be, given that our souls are our deepest and everlasting identities? Maybe this is because there is no widespread agreement on what the soul is, no common language associated with it and no scientific measurement of its properties. It is much easier to discuss our outward personalities. 

June 9, 2025

Our soul is the most powerful energy we have, but we ignore it when dominated by our ego. The result is that we manifest only a fraction of our true selves.  

June 8, 2025

Most of us tend to live in one of our three centers of intelligence: our bodies, heads or hearts, but we forget that our soul is the most important place to live.