[Monday Message] Choosing to feel better about yourself

If you want to feel better about yourself, it helps to do estimable acts. Estimable are are those things which are going to make us better about ourselves in the long term. One of the main reasons that people feel poorly about themselves is because they don’t do the right thing. Consciously or not, this…

[Monday Message] Active Prayer

I’ve been talking with people a lot lately about manifestation, effective affirmations, and prayer. Manifestation is most often used to create an outward change in one’s circumstances. Affirmations are most often used to create a change in one’s inner circumstances. Prayer can be used for either. Each, when done effectively, has a component of making…

[Monday Message] Practice makes perfect

Spiritual practice implies action; practice is a verb as well as a noun. Sitting around and talking about it is merely philosophy, which is nice, but doesn’t get you anywhere until put into practice. Practice also implies that we’re not going to be doing it perfectly any time soon. Lama Khemsar Rinpoche has been known…