200% of life

Life is too short to be living half a life. Nothing less than “whole assed” will do the trick. You feel that way? I’m sure you do. I’m sure you wouldn’t be reading this if it wasn’t true. I get you.

I was speaking with some people earlier in the week and was asking what was the biggest source of stress for them. Someone very perceptive piped up with “my own bad habits”. For her it was eating at her desk – not taking a proper break for lunch, or any breaks throughout the day. On

Someone asked me what learning the Bright Path Ishayas’ Ascension gave me. I thought it was a funny question, maybe I was feeling cheeky, but what I told her was this: Nothing. Learning to Ascend gave me nothing at all.

Yesterday I was talking about having your cake and eating it too. In that you need give nothing up to have a life of 200%. 200% is what the Ishayas call having perfect internal calm and connection and yet a completely full and rich external life – enjoying all the things this world has to

When I was a little bit younger I loved a band called Faithless – I loved them even more when I read an interview with one of the members. I knew he was a rapper and he loved to drive his racing car on track days, but I almost fell over when he talked about

So this fellow and I are having this discussion which takes a moment or two to really get going, simply because he was talking about habits and I thought he said hobbits, as in hairy-toed short people. Don’t worry – we sorted it out in quick time and were onto much more fruitful pastures. It’s

I went to see the Martian last night, which I enjoyed so much. I know I’m a bit slow and behind the times, but I got there. I like Matt Damon a lot, my fiancé (rhymes with Beyonce) is a little jealous. She has no reason to be, I mean he lives in California or

Living the best life possible is absolutely possible. Before I started on this Ishaya meditation path I had the suspicion that there was more to life than what I was living. You know that inkling that perhaps there was something missing, or something more? That’s what I had.

I recently did a survey amongst my email list (sign up —->). What they loved about life, what they found a struggle. Several people said it gave them clarity and perspective. Those two words are among my favourite words, but more on them in a minute. If you are like the guys on my list then you love

The reason I learnt to meditate and the reason I became a Bright Path Ishaya monk was that I was tired of the rollercoaster. All I wanted was stability, a point of reference, some control. Not external stability, all was well there, I was living exactly the life that I wanted. But having everything on