“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.” Baruch Spinoza The partner of war is surrender. Peace has no opposite. In peace, surrender and war are one.…
“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.” Baruch Spinoza The partner of war is surrender. Peace has no opposite. In peace, surrender and war are one.…
The partner of despair is hope. Need has no opposite. In need, hope and despair are one. Hope In some ways, to live in hope is to deny the intelligence of life. Although hope is prized as a virtue, it…
“Cause only a fool lean upon his own misunderstanding. What has been hidden from the wise and the prudent, been revealed to the babe and the suckling.” Bob Marley The partner of mother is father. The child has no opposite.…
“Birth is the partner of death. Life has no opposite. In life, death and birth are one.” Birth Contractions and trauma around birth can limit our ability to experience the birth of each moment in its wonder and freshness. Resistance…
Compassion underlies every moment of experience – whatever its nature. Spontaneously arising from the core of Being, it can never be measured, compared, possessed or lost. Awareness, the open space through which all experience forms and transforms, is inherently compassionate.…
“Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.” Lao Tzu When I was nine years old, my mother remarried and we moved from England to live in Belgium. My parents had married young…
[This is an extract from Nondual Therapy: The Psychology of Awakening, a new book offering modalities for nondual therapy by Georgi Y. Johnson. The book introduces and explains the notion of physical, emotional and mental contraction based on energetic splits…
David Bohm was an eminent quantum physicist. As a young man he worked closely with Albert Einstein at Princeton University. With Yakir Aharonov he discovered the Aharonov-Bohm effect. He was later Professor of Theoretical Physics at Birkbeck College, London University, and was…
As I see it, healing is related to allowing your feelings to be expressed. So you are bringing your qualities into this physical world, this giving an example of your connection to a level that you normally cannot explain, such…
The quality of care has been confused with the demand that we ‘take care’ or be caring. Forcing care is not the care we are talking about here. So often care-taking is part of the negotiation that goes on in…