Cause & Effect Law #5

Can we link actual Causes to their Effects? 
Cynthia F. Davidson from the Wisdom Wheel Cause & Effect card
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The Law of Cause & Effect is about karma, and understanding how specific causes lead to predictable effects. Think about the effects you have caused in your life, by having intentions, goals and challenges. As you've probably heard it said, 'Thoughts are things...' So are emotions, and other energies.

During the coming 10 days, try to retrace the relationship(s) between decisions you've made. What were their true origins and outcomes? Reconsider the chain of causes and effects. Have you had what you wanted? Or have you been surprised? Do your actions originate most often from your logical mind, your heart or your intuition? How often do you let spirit lead?  

Make Cause & Effect your watch words for these ten days. 

Ask for wisdom to be shown to you about Cause & Effect, each morning, and evening. 

Write the words Cause & Effect down where you'll see them often; in your journal, on a rock or a Post It note attached to your mirror. 

Talk about Cause & Effect with friends, family & co-workers. 

Experiment with tracing multiple Causes & Effects as you learn more.

Look for news stories which demonstrate how Effects are Caused in the world at large.  

Share what you learn, in the comments box below, or our Wisdom Wheel Facebook page.

Here are some wise words about the intellectual, emotional, physical and spiritual aspects of the Law of Cause & Effect. 

The Law of Cause and Effect is also known as the Law of Karma and is basically understood as ‘you reap what you sow’… Karma is a learning tool of spirit which manifests through physical circumstances. That which one places into the universe, one receives back, ten-fold. Karma does not discriminate…When we think something happens by chance it is only because we do not recognize the law. Nothing escapes the law of Karma. …Karmic law requires that every human wish finds ultimate fulfillment. Therefore, desire is the chain that binds mankind to the re-incarnation wheel. Karma is attracted only where the magnet of the personal ego still exists.

Margo Kirtikar, Ph.D. in Cosmic and Universal Laws

A life without cause is a life without effect.

Anonymous

To all facts there are laws, the effect has its cause.

Lord Lytton


Thoughts are causes and conditions are effects.
Brian Tracy 

Experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connection, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable.

David Hume, Scottish philosopher

For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.

Blaise Pascal in Pensées

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson American author

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

A new psychology needs to facilitate people in understanding that emotions, whether love and appreciation, or anger and anxiety,are all energies that have to be accounted for in the human system. Accounted for means they come under the laws of physics and the law of cause and effect. Each of us personally is accountable for the effects of our emotions and attitudes. Negative emotional energies stack up in the human system, then translate into mental, emotional and physical ailments if not brought into balance

Doc Childre in The HeartMath Solution

To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don't deal with the causes we will never be safe.

Peter Yarrow

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

Alfred Adler (1870-1937) Austrian psychiatrist

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Wayne Dyer (1940 - ) American author and motivational speaker, books include Excuses Begone

God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws.

Marianne Williamson

If you want to understand the causes that existed in the past, look at the results as they are manifested in the present. And if you want to understand what results will be manifested in the future, look at the causes that exist in the present.

Buddhist sutra

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

William James

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

Wilhelm Stekel

If properly understood, the Law of Karma is a law which gives infinite hope. It says that a man’s destiny is in his own hands. It says that he shall depend upon himself. He is the one to decide on the pattern of the experience to come. He is the master of his destiny. He is the architect of his fate. He has nothing to fear in this universe, nothing except his own wrong actions and thoughts. . . . According to this view, the Law of Karma is not a doctrine of fatalism. On the contrary, it is a doctrine of high orderliness, serving as the basis of the moral order in the whole universe, and the attitude instilled into man by this Law is fearlessness.

Swami Chidananda

(In 10 days, I'll post # 6 The Law of Process in this sequence of 36. Stay tuned.)

Right Relationship Law #4

‘Why are we here?’ Albert Einstein answered that question by saying, ‘We are here for each other.’ So much depends on Right Relationship...

Cynthia F. Davidson from the Wisdom Wheel Right Relationship card
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Many Native Americans use the expression, We are all related, saying Omset Nogama in Migmaw (MicMac) or Mitakuye oyasin in the Lakota Sioux language. How do you express this ideal of interrelationship?

The Law of Right Relationship is about your rightful place in the Grand Scheme of All That Is. Think about how you relate to everything; from the worms to the stars, and how everything relates to you. 
For example, at the elemental level, do you behave with respect towards what your life depends upon; the Air, the Water, the Earth, the creatures and other human beings? 
What feels deeply right about the relationships you have? What feels wrong? 
Are you relating well to your Self (the last Law we studied)? 
During these next 10 days, reconsider your relationships; to your body, your heart, your mind, your spirit. Notice how your emotions affect your thoughts or how your body interacts with your brain. Observe with greater Awareness how everything is interconnected and interrelating. 


Make Right Relationship your watch word. 
Ask for wisdom about Right Relationship, first thing every morning, and last thing every night. 
Write the word Right Relationship down, on your mirror, in your journal, on a rock or a Post It note. 
Talk about Right Relationship and how we are all related with friends, family & co-workers. 
Experiment with Right Relationship and find out as much as you can about it.
Look for news stories that demonstrate it positively or negatively. 
See what happens when you invite Right Relationship into your life with just one other person. 
Share what you learn using the comments box below or our Facebook page.


Here are some wise words from those who've paid attention to the Law of Right Relationship. 

Relationships are the key to a decent world. It seems abundantly clear that every problem you will have – in your family, your business, in our nation or in this world – is essentially a matter of relationships, of interdependence.

Clarence Francis (1888-1985) www.centerforrightrelationship.com

When a man cannot understand himself, when he cannot understand his own imagination and his own problems deeply, then he cannot understand the problems of others. Where there is no understanding, there is no communication between one person and another… By not searching for excellence within, one refuses the gifts already there but not recognized or realized.

Margo Kirtikar, Cosmic and Universal Laws

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986), anti-guru Indian sage

Most people enter into relationships with an eye toward what they can get out of them, rather than what they can put into them. The purpose of a relationship is to decide what part of yourself you'd like to see "show up," not what part of another you can capture and hold. The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you; but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God (Book 1)

When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.  Tom Robbins, American novelist

The best relationship is the one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Unknown

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

Rachel Naomi Remen in Kitchen Table Wisdom

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

Cornelia Otis Skinner in The Ape in Me

If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time.  But if you have come here because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.

Lilla Watson, Australian Aboriginal woman

The hard part of what it means to be interrelated to all things is that our neglect comes back full circle to affect us as negatively as it affects other species. We are held accountable for our actions (or lack therof) toward the Earth, and even to generations yet unborn.

Ed McGaa, Native American spiritual leader

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Mohandas K. Gandhi in My Experiments with Truth

The more identified people are with their respective roles, the more inauthentic the relationships become.

Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth

The point of being in the company of a guru, a wisdom figure, or even a spiritual director is not to be given that person’s truth but rather to be led inside to our own.

Rose Mary Dougherty

Be Impeccable with Your Word;

Don't Take Anything Personally;

Don't Make Assumptions;

Always Do Your Best.

Don Miguel Ruiz in The Four Agreements

 When we start to use these powers of manifestation, focus and prayer, we need to do it in a way that has taken into consideration our place in the fabric of everything. Do it from a place of all spiritual principles; not just the one spiritual principle that says you can manifest your destiny, whatever you – in your ego/personality self - want. That by itself is grossly dangerous.

Christina Pratt

Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals.

The most important things in life are human relations.

I found that out too late.

Katharinde Susannah Prichard, Australian author

(I post the next Law #5, Cause & Effect, in 10 days. Stayed tuned & share what you're discovering about these Laws.)

Self Law #3

Each person has many masks, many selves...they are not the essence of who we are...why do we cling so tightly to definitions that separate us...

Cynthia F. Davidson, from the Wisdom Wheel Self card 

The Law of the Self is about identity and our sense of it. Think about everything; from your ego self, to your subconscious and your Higher Self, sometimes referred to the godself. Which deserves to be capitalized, as Self?  
On the spectrum of 'Know thy self', where are you? A 10, with full Self knowledge?
How can you better know yourself? 
Does this sound 'selfish'? Why?
For the next 10 days, make Self your watch word. 
Ask for wisdom about Self, first thing every morning, and last thing every night. 
Write the word Self down, on your mirror, in your journal, on a rock or a Post It note. 
Talk about the Self and identity with friends and family. 
Experiment with the mental, emotional, physical, sensory & spiritual aspects of your Self.
Look for news stories that demonstrate it positively or negatively. 
See what happens when you invite Self Awareness into your life. 
Share what you learn with us.

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Here are some wise words from those who've paid attention to the Self. 

The less humans chose to know of the Self, the more base they remain.

Hyemeyohsts Storm in Lightingbolt

The greatest fatigue of the day, and of a life may be caused by the effort, by the tension necessary to keep the same self through the continual temptations to change it. We want too much to be someone. There is not one self. There are not ten selves. There is no self. ME is only a position in equilibrium.

Henri Michaux, Plume

To the emptied, waiting, dis-identified ego…some thing special happens. Some one comes. Psychologically we describe this as… being taken over by a greater subject. Jung calls it the break-in of the Self upon the ego, moving the ego over, away from the center of things. One’s psychic universe is radically rearranged, so that the unconscious can now get in. Consciousness is opened for good…the sense of I-ness…opens onto the unknown and lives comfortably with it.

Ann Belford Ulanov, The Wisdom of the Psyche

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

It took millions of years, to build this unique center of consciousness, this I-am-I, this small distorted viewpoint experiencing all things from the inside out. Individualization is a great and necessary step on the spiral path of evolution, but the time must come, when separations will give way to unity, to cooperation and fusion with all-consciousness.

Evelyn Eaton in The Shaman & the Medicine Wheel

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anais Nin in The Diaries of Anais Nin (multiple volumes)

The territory of the self is a vast, unexplored and prohibited geography…our experiences, feelings, insights, understandings are often off-limits. Often we are imprisoned inside ourselves…actually living in exile outside ourselves. One of the basic conditions of contemporary life is the unfulfilled longing of the self for itself.

Deena Metzger in Entering The Ghost River

The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.  No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.

Soren Kierkegaard in The Sickness Unto Death

Our instincts and appetites are better guides, for a healthy life, than the advice of other human beings. People are fun, but not quite as serious or trustworthy as nature is… The self’s responsibility is to achieve rapport, if not rapture, with the giant, cosmic other.

John Updike (1932 – 2009) American author, books include Self-Consciousness and Rabbit series.

Women are taught to embrace other people at the expense of the self; men are taught to bolster the self, often at the expense of others. It is hard to get it all in balance.

Harriet Lerner in The Dance of Intimacy

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self…it is best that the garment be loose, like the robes of the desert, through which ones’ nakedness can always be felt…This trust in one’s nakedness is all that gives one the power to change ones’ robes.

James Baldwin in Another Country

 The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger. 

Cicero, 51 B.C.

Self is a generic word for God, Goddess, Tao, Higher Power and Spirit.

Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.

Far from being selfish, finding my own self was fundamental because that’s the only part that can relate first hand to God.

Mary Morrison, a teacher of gospel studies, in The Feminine Face of God

Somewhere, underlying the facets of self and how we view the self in relation to the manifest world… is the spiritual reality of inner self.  Behind the dreams of self is the real self… an inner, unchanging self. This is what we seek in the mystic search... the center, the self at the very center of being… the calm, inner self, around which our very lives swirl and change. In our search for this balanced and whole self-awareness, we are drawn to differing ways, each with its own reality.

Chokecherry Gall Eagle in Beyond the Lodge of the Sun

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person.  The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Hindu proverb

Meditate deeply, and thou shall find there is nothing thou canst call ‘I’. The innermost result of all analysis is the eternal divine. When egoism vanishes, divinity manifests itself.

Ramakrishna, Teachings of Sri Ramakrishna

(A new Law goes up each 10 days. Stay tuned & participate in the discussion by commenting below. Thanks.)

Awareness Law #2

This is the Law that can bring all the others into focus. Without Awareness, there is no first step towards Enlightenment... 

Cynthia F. Davidson from the Wisdom Wheel Awareness card 

The Law of Awareness is also known as the Law of Consciousness. 
Can you rate your own level(s) of consciousness??
What do you pay attention to? What do you choose to ignore? And why? 
What distracts you? Why?
For the next 10 days, make Awareness your watch word. 
Ask for it, first thing every morning and last thing every night. 
Write the word down, on your mirror, in your journal, on a rock or a Post It note. 
Talk about Awareness and consciousness with friends and family. 
Experiment with mental, emotional, physical, sensory & spiritual Awareness.
Look for news stories that celebrate it or demonstrate its lack. 
See what happens when you invite Awareness into your life. 
Share what you learn with us. 
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Here's some more wisdom from those who've paid attention to Awareness. 

A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.

Stanislav Grof

The question is not what you look at but what you see. …Millions are awake enough only for physical labor; and only one in a million for effective intellectually exertion; only one in a hundred million for a poetic or divine life. I have never met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?

Henry David Thoreau, Journals

Stop identifying with your mind and start watching it. In that experience you (one thing) watch your mind (a second thing) (and)…you become conscious of the mind… As Awareness grows … (you) become aware of the insanity of identifying with the mind…its fantasies, its desires, its defenses….The more I ‘catch’ the mind slipping into itself, the stronger Awareness becomes.

Wayne Wirs, photographer and author, books include Fading Into Enlightenment

A sage is one who knowingly lives as consciousness. Since Awareness is impersonal and universal, there is only one sage beyond the apparent distinctions of race, gender, age, etcetera.

Francis Lucille

Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness.

Arthur Koestler, The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.

Georges Gurdjieff, Meetings with Remarkable Men

This is the human problem; there is a price to be paid for every increase in consciousness. We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Alan Watts, books include The Wisdom of Insecurity

Only what we pay attention to seems real to us, whereas whatever we ignore—no matter how important it may be—seems to fade into insignificance... Each of us chooses, by our ways of attending to things, the universe we inhabit and the people we encounter. But for most of us, this “choice” is unconscious, so it’s not really a choice at all.

B. Alan Wallace, PhD. The Attention Revolution

If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything... Knowledge is the greatest obstacle to awakening... (because) we are so attached to our knowledge, our habits, and our prejudices...

Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

The mind’s first step in Awareness must be through the body.

George Sheehan

A mind that is not aware will produce illness.

Charlotte J. Beck in Every Day Zen

It is Awareness… of how you are stuck, that makes you recover.

Fritz Perls

Once a photograph of the Earth taken from the outside is available…a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose. 

Sir Fred Hoyle (1948)

The first day or so we all pointed to our countries.  The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents.  By the fifth day we were aware of only one Earth.

Prince Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, Saudi Arabian astronaut

 As we become increasingly aware of our global interdependence as a species, we can also deepen awareness of our spiritual interconnectedness. We cannot live in total isolation. The cross-cultural communion of awakened souls may be the key to co-creating a sustainable future and living in harmony with the earth.

Frances Vaughan in Shadows of the Sacred

At the deepest level of ecological awareness you are talking about spiritual awareness. Spiritual awareness is an understanding of being imbedded in a larger whole, a cosmic whole, of belonging to the universe.

Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics

Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being.

David Steindl-Rast

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Spirituality means waking up. Many of us, even though we don't know it, are asleep. We're born asleep, we live asleep, we marry in our sleep, we breed children in our sleep, we die in our sleep without ever waking up… What you are aware of, you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

Anthony De Mello, in Awareness

Only total awareness can save us.  Complete attention is the closest thing to a perfect prayer.

Margareta Ekstrom in The Day I Began My Studies in Philosophy & Other Stories

Balance Law #1

Balance comes from knowing your center, and staying there, while moving through the world at the speed of daily life.

Cynthia F. Davidson, from the first card in the Wisdom Wheel deck

In 1998, when I wrote those words for the Balance Law card, I didn't know what I was talking about. My life was a better example of imbalance. I hadn't found my center yet either.

But I became a student of Balance. It was that or else become ill, like many of the people around me back then. By the following year, the craziness of that phase of my life was over. I'd relocated to a small, quiet island, and set up TouchStoneCenter, a spiritual retreat sanctuary, where I still live and work today, with my husband Malcolm. 

 Touch the stones to center yourself. It is time to sit in a circle and learn the Laws of the Universe. If you will do this, you can become a touchstone for others. 

TouchStoneCenter motto 

So, this is how you begin a year on the Wisdom Wheel. You start with the Law of Balance. Learn to give up what prevents it. 
For the next 10 days, make Balance your watch word. 
Ask for it, first thing every morning and last thing every night. 
Write the word down, in your journal, on a rock or a Post It note. 
Talk about it with friends and family. 
Find your indestructible inner center.
Be on the lookout for news stories that celebrate it, or warn by demonstrating its opposite. 
See what happens when you invite the wisdom of this Law into your life. 
Share your learning here with us. 
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To stay on track, here are some more bits of wisdom, from others who came to believe in Balance. 

If gravity is the glue that holds the universe together,

Balance is the key that unlocks its secrets.

Balance applies to our body, mind and emotions,

to all levels of our being, anything we do,

we can overdo or under do,

and if that pendulum swings too far to one side,

it will inevitable swing to the other.

Dan Millman, The Laws of Spirit

Also known as the law of Equalities or Fair Exchange, Balance is a universal law that supersedes all of man’s laws… 

Each thought must be balanced by whomever creates it. This is divine wisdom….

The forces of Nature are in a state of equilibrium but the constant oscillation keeps the universe in motion, perpetually active. 

…The vital thing is that this imbalance should not be too great or it will lead to total destruction… 

Learn to work with the forces and do not sway too far from that golden middle line.

Margo Kirtikar, Ph.D. Flowing With Universal Laws and Cosmic and Universal Laws

Balance requires that we recognize when we are taking too much, and when we are taking too little; when we are giving too much, and when we need to take more. Mutuality reminds us that while each individual is unique and each of us needs to affirm our inner wholeness, we also need to build relationships that honor the wholeness of other people and of the material world around us. These two principles of balance and mutuality are shaping what I call a new economics of empowerment.

Barbara Brandt, Whole Life Economics

We become our own enemy when we are thrown out of Balance by anger, hatred, grief or any other intense emotion. We are for the time being obsessed by something alien.

Paramananda, cited in Esther M. Sternberg’s book The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health & Emotions

Health is traditionally defined as a state of perfect balance; and healing is that which brings about that kind of balance once again.

William A. McGarey, M.D. The Edgar Cayce Remedies

 Someone who is a manic-depressive is swinging from one pole to another to such an extent that they are out of control… Binging and starving are opposite poles. They are a manifestation of feeling out of control and therefore trying to control whatever is possible. Our aim is to Balance all aspects of our lives. If any qualities are out of Balance, we are called upon to re-center ourselves and make new life choices.

Diana Cooper, A Little Light on the Spiritual Laws

Centering is the image I use for the Process of Balance which will enable us to step along that thread, feeling it not as a thread but a sphere. It will, it is hoped, help us walk through extremes with an incorruptible instinct for wholeness, finding our way continuous, self-completing.

Mary Caroline Richards, Centering

The spiral form invites both halves of our brains to be involved: the understanding that comes through the left half of the brain comes through our linear mind, which absorbs information through words and logic; the right brain is in touch with images, sensations, memories and feelings that are personal and collective, in time and timeless, and it imposes no order or logic on them. An ‘aha!’ recognition comes when there is a crossover from right to left or left to right… we then know something on multiple levels and are affected or moved by what we know.

Thom Hartmann in Walking Your Blues Away

When I am in balance, there is no struggle.

Kerri Brennan in Visual Journaling

The key issue is balance… Quality…comes from balance, physically, mentally and emotionally. It may be immensely rewarding to have built a major organization, but if that is accomplished through the sacrifice of personal health or losing one’s family, then what kind of reward is it? …the sacrifice of balance is never appropriate…balance preserves the identity, the spirit and the heart…There have been far too many examples of unbalanced vision already.

David Gaster, New Traditions in Business

                                                                             

A person should always carry two notes in his pockets - one with the words, ‘For my sake alone the world was created,‘ and another with the words, ‘I am as lowly as the dust.’

Rabbi Simcha Bunem of Przysucha, quoted in Kol Simcha

The key word is Balance. No Navajo believes that if they walk in Beauty they will be eternally surrounded by bliss. The idea is to walk the narrow path between the negative and the positive, keeping yourself centered.

David Chethlahe Paladin (1926-1984) cited by Joel & Michelle Levey in their book Living in Balance

Spirituality is a matter of Balance.
We envision, we long for,
we act and through this Process
we take our place and our power in this world.

Christina Baldwin, Calling the Circle

That which is out of Balance will not endure. Only by being balanced within ourselves can we hope to Balance the world.

Anodea Judith, books include Wheels of Life

Balance, it is never a given, it can never be held on to, it is always balancing. It arises from the graceful chance that efforts can prepare.

Jurgen W. Kremer, Ph.D., books include Blackfoot Ways of Knowing

Stay tuned. In ten days, we'll take up the second Law of Awareness.

How Shall We Live?

The problem everywhere nowadays turns on how we shall decide to live. Neither the government leaders nor the demographers have been able to supply an answer to the question, How shall we live?

Edward Hoagland (1932 - ) American author, books include Compass Points: How I Lived and Balancing Acts


Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor the market economy will function properly.

Vaclav Havel (1236 - 2011), Czech writer, playwright and imprisoned anti-Soviet dissident, past president of Czechoslovakia, books include The Art of the Impossible: Politics as Morality in Practice

Have you decided how to live? 

What are your moral values and obligations? 

Can you clearly state them, so others can understand what your conscience is based upon? 

Do you still expect some one else to do this for you? 

Will some charismatic leader, some savoir or a rescuer come along or will you grow up?? 

It is obvious, to anyone who listens to the news, that democratically elected governments and market economies are not functioning properly... 
When do you plan to do something about this? 
How much more will we take, before each of us accepts our obligation to stand up for ourselves? 
We need a code of honor we can live by. We need a code of honor others can share.
Or else we must continue swallowing lies and collaborating with corrupt leaders and unsustainable systems.
The choice is yours.