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Dream Big

On August 8, 2025

In Conscious Living, Guest Posts, Inner Guidance, Spirituality, Waking Dreams

Reading Time: 2 minutes

Guest Post by Gloria Lionz

Happy Friday night, August 1, 2025. If you live long enough, you have experiences that “speak volumes…” Case in point, I was driving to see a new practitioner in Portland. On my way there, I was wondering if working with her was going to be as successful as I hoped. Shortly, after inwardly asking that question I noticed an unusual sign painted on the back of a delivery van. It was far in the distance. As I drove other cars went in other directions, turned off the highway as everyone does. Eventually the van was right in front of me.

Crafting Wabi-Sabi (Poem)

By Michael Avery

On August 3, 2025

In Conscious Living, Guest Posts, Love & Relationships, Personal Growth, Poetry, Spirituality

Reading Time: 2 minutes

Guest Post by Dennis Ernst

I think of my own life and all of its imperfections. The challenges, slowly tearing down outdated beliefs, stripping away all that isn’t needed for the next step in life. This process is an evolution that creatively crafts our becoming into a unique and ever-changing work of art. It challenges us to keep going, keep working, keep crafting our masterpiece of human experience. Each refinement reveals new hidden beauty, depth, and a deeper understanding of our journey and our becoming.

Wabi-Sabi

By Michael Avery

On July 25, 2025

In Conscious Living, Guest Posts, Love & Relationships, Personal Growth, Spirituality

Reading Time: 3 minutes

Guest Post by Dennis Ernst

Wabi-Sabi’s roots are deeply embedded in Buddhist philosophy, particularly in the teachings that emphasize impermanence, suffering, and the absence of self.

It’s a perspective that sees a simplistic beauty in the transient nature of life, a view that emerged in Japan as an aesthetic counterpoint to the prevailing notions of beauty. The fragile, transient nature of something, imperfect, incomplete becomes a model for the human experience.

Going the Extra Mile

By Michael Avery

On July 15, 2025

In Conscious Living, Personal Growth, Spirituality, Synchronicity, Waking Dreams

Reading Time: 2 minutes

By Michael Avery (from a story by Jim Jackson in Seven Signs from the Universe by Michael and Pichaya Avery)

After fighting heavy traffic for an hour and forty-five minutes, Jim Jackson stopped for an early dinner at a restaurant in Troutdale, a small town just east of Portland, Oregon. He had only traveled thirty-nine miles and still had a ways to go before reaching the Menucha Retreat Center overlooking the Columbia Gorge where he and a friend would be facilitating a discussion group later that night.

Shibumi (and Haiku)

By Michael Avery

On July 2, 2025

In Conscious Living, Guest Posts, Poetry, Spirituality

Reading Time: 3 minutes

Guest post by Dennis Ernst

There is a word, I recently came across that I’ve been needing to add to my vocabulary of how to live. The word is found in the Japanese language as Shibumi. It translates to English as “effortless perfection, elegance, simplicity, and humility. It’s seen in Japanese minimalism and is an art form, a philosophy, and a lifestyle. This struck me as a wonderful metaphor of living.

Bookmarks (A Waking Dreams Tool)

By Michael Avery

On June 25, 2025

In Conscious Living, Spirituality, Waking Dreams

Reading Time: < 1 minute

By Michael Avery

from Seven Signs from the Universe by Michael and Pichaya Avery

Bookmarks

“Bookmarks” are like setting an alarm with a symbol. We mark a time in the future when it’s optimal for us to do a certain thing. We can choose a specific symbol for any number of situations. Here are three examples:

Marion’s Conundrum

By Michael Avery

On June 18, 2025

In Conscious Living, Guest Posts, Health & Healing, Personal Growth, Spirituality, Waking Dreams

Reading Time: 4 minutes

Guest Post by David Rivinus

Marion looked perturbed; that wasn’t like her.

A skilled, beloved and highly respected theater costume designer, she had trained pros who were now working on Broadway. And recently, she had agreed to mentor amateurs who showed promise. They paid her hourly for her instruction and put their new-found skills to a variety of uses.

“OK, Marion, what’s up?” I probed.

Announcing Our New Book: “Seven Signs from the Universe”

By Michael Avery

On May 12, 2025

In Animals, Conscious Living, Divine Love, Dreams, Health & Healing, Ho'oponopono, HU: An Ancient Mantra, Inner Guidance, Inspirational Quotes, Love & Relationships, Messages from Memories, Past Lives & Karma, Personal Growth, Self-love, Spiritual Exercises, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart, Synchronicity, Waking Dreams

Reading Time: 2 minutes

By Michael Avery

Dear friends,

Pichaya and I are delighted to share that our new printed book, Seven Signs from the Universe, is now available on Amazon. The EPUB version is also available at the same link.

The front and back covers feature artwork by Claude Gruffy, a world-class Canadian artist.

Choice

By Michael Avery

On April 29, 2025

In Conscious Living, Guest Posts, Love & Relationships, Personal Growth, Spirituality

Reading Time: 4 minutes

Guest Post by Gloria Lionz

Choice. That’s been my focus for a long time. No matter what’s going on in the world, it’s key to being and living my best life.

For some time now, I’ve made it a practice to turn the news off early. Steady streams from outside sources tend to put me in what I call an urgent yet ‘inflated’ trance of distress. When I ignore that practice, I often forget I am Soul experiencing a sometimes ‘loud’ life in a human body.

Learning to Know (& Poem)

By Michael Avery

On April 18, 2025

In Conscious Living, Guest Posts, Inner Guidance, Personal Growth, Poetry, Spirituality

Reading Time: 3 minutes

Guest Post by Dennis Ernst

Each of us develops our own strengths. These come from choices and experience, often over long periods of time. I’ve noticed three types of strengths that one can develop into a living and learning style unique to them.

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