by Erika Awakening | Jul 1, 2009 | Personal Growth Transformation
Embracing Imperfection – Can We Give Ourselves A Break? All right … I wasn’t going to post for a while, but as usual I can’t help myself. There’s a big debate going on right now between Player Girl and myself. She thinks she “f*cked...
by Erika Awakening | Dec 13, 2008 | A Course in Miracles, Personal Growth Transformation, Uncategorized
Someone (who will remain unnamed) has been asking me repeatedly whether I really think we are living in the Matrix. Rather than answer the question directly (where would be the fun in that?), I offer you these brief vignettes, first from the Matrix movie and then from...
by Erika Awakening | Nov 24, 2008 | A Course in Miracles, Personal Growth Transformation, Uncategorized
This may be the most fundamental lesson I learned in the past few months. If someone cuts me off in traffic, does it matter? No. If someone doesn’t call me when they said they would call, does it matter? Nope. If someone doesn’t get something done on time,...
by Erika Awakening | Nov 13, 2008 | Personal Growth Transformation, spirituality
It seems like a large number of guys in the community are discovering the work of Eckhart Tolle (who wrote The Power of Now and Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose). What many people don’t know is that Tolle’s writings are in essence a more easily...
by Erika Awakening | Nov 2, 2008 | Outdoors
Simple Joy – Mountain Biking In the Rain I feel inspired to post again about Simple Joy: Mountain Biking in the Rain. Yesterday it was pouring. I told some people that I was going mountain biking. They said “you CAN’T do that, it’s...
by Erika Awakening | Oct 23, 2008 | A Course in Miracles, Personal Growth Transformation
The Power of Doing Nothing This is perhaps my favorite entry in A Course in Miracles (ACIM), maybe because it was the hardest for me to learn (and I’m still learning it). Doing nothing was so completely foreign to the way I lived my life. A few years ago, I was...
