soulful impact / CLG

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 a... See more

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

Choosing to embrace rather than deny the intensity of our feelings and emotions is like building a new muscle or gaining confidence with a new skill. It may feel scary and awkward at first, but each time you do it, you build more comfort and capacity. Ultimately, this practice unlocks greater integrity with yourself, as you stop fighting with your ... See more

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.

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.

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.

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

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, somethin... See more

Embracing your disowned parts means finding the willingness to recognize that, despite your ego’s protests, you contain the full spectrum of humanity and possibility within you. Instead of pretending that certain qualities you dislike in other people don’t also exist in you, try on the possibility that if you spot it, you got it.