Posts tagged "Jean Houston"
Waking up

Waking up

What do you do when you first wake up in the morning?  How does it relate to living the kind of day you’d like to live, if at all :-)!?  I have several practices that I enjoy, and recently have learned another one I want to share with you.  I really like the effect it...
Improve the World and/or Enjoy It?

Improve the World and/or Enjoy It?

None other than E. B. White, wise, clever fellow, and one of my favorite writers, said, “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” I’m on my own for a week, Mike is attending a Guitar...
Myth Making and Personal Growth

Myth Making and Personal Growth

Snap the Seahorse is a character in a children’s book I’m working on.  I love seahorses, the sea, fantasy, challenges, stories of transformation. So when Jean Houston — that charismatic human-potential guide and mentor — suggested in her on-line course, Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, (which I’m finding nourishing, healing, and passionately enlivening!), that we...
We Are Made of Light..

We Are Made of Light..

We are well on the way to the longest day of the year… just past Beltane, the Celtic celebration of the half-way point between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice.  Beltane rituals often involved fire, and invoked protection for crops, herds, people, and encouraged growth and fertility.  I’m also right around the corner of my 71st...