soulful impact / CLG

The trouble is that ego-based motivation also creates a sort of toxic, fear-based sludge. We might achieve our goals, but sooner or later it costs us in some other way.

Your secret suspicion that you are here for something magnificent is true. You are here to contribute to the unfolding of the magnificence of creation, to contribute to more life and more beauty in the world. And when I say magnificent, it doesn't necessarily mean famous or successful in the outward sense, but something magnificent to you,... See more

Based on a useful model created by spiritual teacher Michael Bernard Beckwith, there are four ways of being in the world: To Me > By Me > Through Me > As Me. I find it useful to think of these as experience states, in that we can bounce around between all four all the time.

Our egos like to separate themselves from the world by judging certain qualities, experiences or identities as “good” and others as “bad.” Then they try to control our inner experiences and outer appearances to align with those judgments. In other words, they resist the dark and bias toward the light.

The more we allow ourselves to wake up, the more creator power we unlock

Contraction follows expansion, and expansion follows contraction. Just as the day knows when to surrender to the night and the spring knows when to take over from the winter, our bodies, minds and souls can guide us home to the deep alignment, wholeness and beauty that we already are. Our task is to simply get ourselves out of the way.

Genuine awakening occurs in the delicate, dynamic and delicious balance between agency and surrender.

Soulful Impact appears in each moment we meet with an awakened consciousness. It isn’t measured by objective metrics or numbers. We can’t quantify its impact, because it’s much bigger than that.

It’s the passage of divine creativity and sacred intelligence that comes through when we ground ourselves in the deepest truth of our being and allow our... See more

I’d been diligently executing my mind’s plan for “success” and had made it to my dream graduate program and dream summer internship. Yet these shiny accolades weren’t making me feel the way I expected to feel once I reached them. The strategy of my adolescent ego wasn’t working, and as I began to face that, my life felt like it was falling apart. I... See more