I worked with the survivors of the Asian Tsunami of 2004. It marked one of the most transformative experiences of my life. I will post the piece I wrote during that time soon. What I learned the most from the survivors was the human capacity for resilience. Humbled, I learned how to allow for joy despite tragedy, hope despite overwhelming devastation. 

Spiritual Insight from Eckhart Tolle's Stillness Speaks

Do you think of yourself as wounded?

If you have recovered from feeling wounded, and now help others who are wounded, do you think of yourself as a “wounded healer”?

Michael Brown points out in The Presence Process, which we will in the June issue of the Namaste Publishing newsletter (you can sign up for it free on this site) offer for the first time in audio format for instant download, that our true being has never been wounded and hence there is no need for healing.

Spiritual Insight from Eckhart Tolle's Stillness Speaks

When fear drives people, they can do extremely destructive things to themselves and sometimes to others.

At such times, we are acting out of what Eckhart Tolle in The Power of Now calls our pain-body.

Spiritual Insight from Eckhart Tolle's Stillness Speaks

It’s all been done before. Groups who predicted the end of the world, when their prediction failed, said they had misunderstood. The event happened after all, they claimed, but was “spiritual.”

That’s Howard Camping’s explanation for his prophetic failure concerning May 21, which he called Judgment Day. It took place spiritually, he now asserts.

The actual end of the world will come October 21, says Camping, and at that time the “saved” will be raptured to heaven.