spiritual

You know how humans think. It’s up, down, back and forth, against something, for something. As humans, we expect to experience everything from tragedy to joy. Do we have a choice? Aren’t we human? Maybe, maybe not. Isn’t human a label for a set of beliefs and paradigms? So what would happen if we didn’t [...]

Sometimes we—thinking we are human—make things so complicated. And really, it’s not. I believe if we could all put into place a few basic principles, then solutions would be found that would unravel all the issues we face. Of course, we’d have to do it together. We’d have to agree. And often, that seems impossible. [...]

One morning, while writing my next book, I looked up and saw a man jogging down our road. Years of teaching dance kicked in, and I said to him—in my thoughts only—”Lead with your pelvis, not your head.” Laughing at myself for still having that habit of correcting movement, I thought back to when I [...]

I was trying to print out something, but I didn’t hear it printing in the next room. Since it was a new program, and I had already judged it to be “behind the times,” I figured it was the program and didn’t check the printer. It took two days and multiple tries before I checked [...]

Habits are wonderful. Except when they aren’t. The habits I like are the ones that keep me in line, moving down the road towards where I want to go. Habits I don’t like are like ruts in that road. Ruts can be challenging to get out of, especially when we do the exact opposite of [...]

Why want what we already have? What a glorious year we have had. All of us. Yes, glorious if we choose to look at it that way. The glorious part? For the first time in our memory, the world has shared an experience that affected us equally. But the living of it and its aftermath [...]

Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time. The man who has no imagination has no wings. —Muhammad Ali Here is the question you might, and probably should be, asking yourself. Why bother with learning how to be an Imagination Master? What practical use could being a master of imagination be in [...]

Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time. End Imposter Syndrome, Overthinking and Perfectionism and Do What YOU Want Do you worry that you are not as good as everyone else? Have past experiences led you to doubt your abilities? Do you try too hard and obsess over details in case you [...]

Once upon a time, a coach I was working with told me I could be another Tony Robbins.  I said, no. I had no desire to be the person who I would have to become to do that.  He didn’t understand, and not long after that told me he couldn’t work with me anymore. Well, [...]

Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time. I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.—Rabindranath Tagore She was always-on-call. I wanted to be like her, but I had no idea how I could handle what she [...]

Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time. Spiritual Perception Spiritual Perception reveals that there is nothing going on but God, Good. Instead of thinking that there will be a time that the tares will be separated from the wheat, we know that as we gain spiritual awareness, what appears to be [...]

Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time. Is There A God Or Isn’t There? I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own—a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.—Albert Einstein Hasn’t everyone wondered, at [...]

<img src="https://www.becalewis.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/WhoDoWeFollow-1024x536.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="536" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-3837" / Leadership lessons from Harry the squirrel. We name our squirrels. Harry Peanut is a young gray squirrel with a bounce in her step and a very distinctive way of approaching and eating the peanuts we leave out for her. But most importantly, she is a wise [...]

Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time. Three Habit Stories Story One: For over 6 years, I had eaten peanuts in the shell for breakfast. This may be a crazy breakfast, but I loved it all the same. However, every time I cracked a peanut, little peanut pieces flew around which [...]

A Metaphysical, visionary, fantasy, adventure: When betrayal is the name of the game, can anyone win? As the tyrannical, man-made religion of Aaron-Lem spreads across the world like wildfire, banished shapeshifter Meg Portia struggles to come to terms with the weakening of her own powers. Her shapeshifting powers were what made her unique and special. [...]

Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time. When you come to a fork in the road, take it. —Yogi Berra When you face a fork in the road, step on the exhilarator! —Pat Riley Ready—Set—Shift. Why not change our point of view? After all, who really wants to live in a [...]

Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time. In this episode of Shifting Stories listen to Chapter Two in Living in Grace: The Shift To Spiritual Perception. And because it is a long chapter, this is part three. Click to find Living In Grace at your favorite Book Store Chapter Two: Part [...]

Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time. In this episode of Shifting Stories listen to Chapter Two in Living in Grace: The Shift To Spiritual Perception. And because it is a long chapter, this is part two. Click to find Living In Grace at your favorite Book Store Chapter Two: Part [...]

For years, while sitting in a tiny church in Venice, CA, I stared at this quote on the wall. “Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.“— Mary Baker Eddy. I did not truly understand what that meant. But more than anything I wanted to. It was a promise, and I [...]

Discouragement is something everyone faces from time to time. In my last post, I talked about the need to shift, or pivot, or change our minds. But something that often gets in the way of doing that is the feeling of discouragement. So, as promised, here are some ways that have helped me, and my [...]

In a world fractured by division, where ugly lines separate us from one another, perhaps we need to look both backward and forward to find our way through. Here’s something worth remembering: In 1928, America erupted in controversy over the possibility of electing a Catholic president. Terrible things were said about Al Smith—the same kinds [...]

We know the story. A man named Jesus, while dying on a cross, said, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.”* It astonished those who heard him speak. They expected him to speak words of condemnation, and he did not. That is amazing, especially when we think how difficult it can sometimes [...]

The only constant sound I heard was my feet stumbling a bit on the many small rocks that covered the red dirt trail. Even though homes and the ocean were visible, they were far away, leaving a beautifully soft silence, occasionally broken by a bird trill, or something scurrying in the brush. I was visiting [...]

When one of our granddaughters was little, Del and I would sit with her while she took a bath. She had a bathtub full of little yellow duckies and her favorite game was lining them all up on the edge of the tub. Once she had them in place, Del would point behind her and [...]