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Crafting Wabi-Sabi (Poem)

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 The challenges, slowly tearing down outdated beliefs, stripping away all that isn’t needed for the next step in life.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.

Finding Advice on the Road of Life

By Michael Avery

On July 30, 2025

In HU: An Ancient Mantra, Inner Guidance, Love & Relationships, Personal Growth, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart, Waking Dreams

Reading Time: 2 minutes

By Michael Avery (from Seven Signs from the Universe)

Mark West recently wrote in an email how he’d been cautioned to use more discrimination when expressing his frustration with a person at work. “Sometimes it’s best to just keep silent and contemplate upon the reflection we’re receiving from the world around us,” Mark noted. A waking dream suggested a better approach for him to take the next time he found himself frustrated by the actions of a co-worker.

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.

The Interplay Between Sleep & Wakefulness

By Michael Avery

On July 10, 2025

In Dreams, Guest Posts, Personal Growth, Spirituality

Reading Time: 4 minutes

Guest Post by David Rivinus

Stacy was ecstatic.

The vacation to Italy she and her husband had been planning for months was finally happening. The two were on an exclusive tour that had taken them to a quaint, picturesque village in the Italian Alps, far from the holiday crowds. It was quiet, beautiful and totally Italian. What’s more, the guides were terrific.

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.

Birdsong of the Equinox: A Personal and Collective Waking Dream

By Michael Avery

On March 28, 2025

In Guest Posts, Love & Relationships, Personal Growth, Spirituality, Synchronicity, Waking Dreams

Reading Time: 7 minutes

Guest Post by Riley Carson

This year, on the date of the 2025 Spring Equinox, my wife and I signed up for Hulu, the streaming service now owned by Walt Disney. It seemed like a small, ordinary decision—just another subscription among many. But what followed was surprising.

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