Author RSSThe Language of Awakening: How to Use Daily Life to Develop Awareness
Copyright 2006 Tom Russell
The Language of Awakening is not like standard, everyday information that's meant to be stored in the intellect. The phrases that make up The Language of Awakening need to reach a deeper part of you. They seek to get past the...
Gathering Knowledge: Practical Tips to Actively Absorb Spiritual Wisdom
Copyright 2006 Tom Russell
How can you get the seeds of knowledge past the intellect's filters so they reach deeper ground, germinate, and grow?
Spiritual seekers tend to be far too passive, as though they can just sit back and listen or read and le...
“Nature Never Duplicates a Path”: Your Spiritual Independence is Important and Unique
Copyright 2006 Tom Russell
Why is spiritual independence important? Because it allows you to make the higher discoveries of your heart through your own perceptions on your spiritual journey. This means you must find your own way, which ultimately will ...
Ancient Wisdom from the Taoist Chuang Tzu: Movement is Life
Copyright 2006 Tom Russell
"Tao is obscured when men understand only one of a pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear expression also becomes muddled by mere wordplay, affirming this one aspect and denying all th...
Keep Your Mind Where Your Body Is: Practice Daily Exercises to Achieve Awareness
Copyright 2006 Tom Russell
Awareness is unity with the present moment. Being fully aware brings together your spirit, mind, emotions, and body. And awareness is inherently expansive; it grows whenever you grant it the opportunity. Therefore, awareness ...
Practice Self-Surprise: A Practical Way to Develop the Power of Instant Choice
Copyright 2006 Tom Russell
Everything depends on our power of choice. We choose to be in the present, choose to observe ourselves, and choose to develop independence and self-reliance.
However, for many of us, our energy of instant choice has been d...
Three Words to Unlock the Cheerfulness of the Present Moment
Copyright 2006 Tom Russell
Has a ray of happiness ever reached you at an unexpected moment? Haven't you longed for these rays to break through more often, and with greater intensity?
The present moment can be compared to an island in the middle of ...
Pause - Yield - Choose: Your Three Powers for Happiness and Vitality
Copyright 2006 Tom Russell
When I was a young man of seventeen I learned to fly airplanes. My first flight as a student pilot taught the value of the PAUSE.
On my very first lesson the instructor put me at the controls. Great tension possessed me ...
Seven Ways to Transform Your Relationship to Stress and Anxiety
Copyright 2006 Tom Russell
Stress is amazingly persistent, even seductive. We get used to feeling tight and tense. Though positive thinking has its place, unless it's backed up by practical wisdom, it tends to get overwhelmed and fade away.
Here are...
A Modern Day Wisdom Seeker Interviews Walt Whitman
Copyright 2006 Tom Russell
Walt Whitman lived a life of wisdom and simplicity. Here is how a modern day wisdom seeker might interview the great 19th century poet, and his inspiring replies.
Q: I have always had a timid and apologetic attitude towa...
What Gliders Can Teach Us About Spiritual Contemplation
Copyright 2006 Tom Russell
The glider has a fascinating parallel to the practice of contemplation. A glider is carried aloft by a tow plane. The tow plane can only go so high. At a certain point the lever is pulled and the glider soars.
Contemplati...
Seven Ways to Defang Difficult People
Copyright 2006 Tom Russell
Difficult people are on the hunt for a quarrel. It's not personal, usually. It's just that you happen to be the most convenient target.
Difficult people are insecure. They want YOU think and live like THEY think and liv...