soulful impact / CLG

I believe remembering our true nature means transcending the ego. It means seeing through the illusion of the smaller, separate self and grounding ourselves in the greater truth of who we really are: an embodied manifestation of consciousness that is inherently connected and one with all of life, while at the same time holding a unique perspective... See more

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

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.

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.

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

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

Through the sheer bigness of your heart, you recognize that even the most repulsive parts of you still contain a sacred essence. They are redeemable, and therefore, so are you. You get to come home to the wholeness that you already are.

Our gifts have an uncanny way of inviting us to confront and lean past the edges of our comfort zone, testing and stretching our ego’s constrained ideas of who we really are.

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