Theme · 32 writingsPresence & Awakening
Waking up to the moment in front of you — the presence practice, the goosebump moments.
Tiny deposits into the soul that compound over time.
Fulfillment comes from the number of quality minutes per day, not giant life events.
When you move from the heart, seeds are planted. Whether you see the fruit or not.
Eric recounts cascading synchronicities in London and Miami around his script and a shared Himalayan teacher.
Over the years, I’ve come to realize that time is our most precious commodity, and there’s only one invest
Reflecting on the true value of time, the one resource never earned back.
Over the last 48 hours, I had the most profound positive brainstorming experience of my life.
Woke up Tuesday with the most profound positive brainstorming experience of his life.
The intensity of our triggers is directly linked to the values and attributes we hold most dear.
Shares his discovery that trigger intensity directly mirrors the core values a situation violates, with counter-measures.
A two-word Yoda reference with no further content.
A two-word Yoda reference with no further content.
It’s using physical pain as its primary Messenger to make certain that it has my attention!
Reads the Universe's not-so-subtle signs — a crippling leg injury forcing him to write — as a call to a new Bliss Journey.
I guess I’m just against any form of blinding myself further from the present moment.
Celebrates the Metaverse's failure as a win for real life, urging readers to stay present rather than blind themselves with virtual escape.
Presence
A one-word post: Presence.
Think of your right hand as the one that guided you to follow your bliss and your left hand as the one that pr
Awakened Doing Part 2: outer purpose (follow your bliss) and inner purpose (awaken) combined.
Follow Your Bliss. Three simple words. This is one of the proven pathways to peace, joy and self-love.
Awakened Doing Part 1: the two pathways to enlightenment — following bliss and practicing presence.
Beauty is all around us. Just need to slow down to experience it.
A Monday reminder: beauty is everywhere — you only need to slow down.
This is an egoic purchase and my Soul doesn’t want it.
Part 4a: after withdrawing from escrow as an egoic purchase, a lawsuit threat arrives before a Tolle talk.
I can take care of challenging unexpected matters without succumbing into any pain and suffering at all.
Pulled from Tolle-retreat calm into a high-stakes real estate deal, he stays present through 12-hour workdays.
A presence-practice day with Patrick Combs in San Diego — and unexpected giraffes.
A presence-practice day with Patrick Combs in San Diego — and unexpected giraffes.
The Universe is magical if you can become present and awaken to its vast miracles.
A full day of awakened-doing planning for 2023, with a garbage bin for discards.
Were the butterflies present the first time I opened my eyes, but I wasn’t conscious enough to see them?
His first presence-practice miracle: butterflies he couldn't see until his ego quieted.
Life is a like a sexually transmitted disease with a fatal outcome.
Live notes 24 hours into the Eckhart Tolle retreat.
I prefer to cheer on any choice for growth rather than assume, or desire to know the reason for it.
Should we assume people seeking growth are suffering? A nuanced no.
I have never attended a retreat as a customer.
Attending his first-ever retreat as a customer — Eckhart Tolle's Depth of Being.
I don’t bet on 3rd party business ideas. As active entrepreneurs, my wife and I have plenty of our own ideas t
Part 2: investing in Franchesca's film and watching her triumph.
Witnessing Franchesca R Davis screen her film “Tsunami” at Bliss Island. Astounding!
Goosebump Moment of the Year Part 1: Franchesca R Davis screening her film Tsunami.
If you do, you will not want to go back to allowing your thoughts to go unchecked, delivering 95% of your pain
An invitation to try a presence practice to make suffering optional.
I learned that I could dispel thoughts by acknowledging that they showed up in my head but that I could then d
Seven-month report on his presence practice: ego demoted, soul promoted to CEO.
A miracle just occurred at Bliss Island.
A miracle occurred at Bliss Island during Patrick Combs's keynote on becoming miracle-minded.
99% of our suffering is from not being present
Shares his presence-coaching notes: two pathways, hallmarks, techniques, benefits.
I have a decades long pattern of always turning to my strength of 'doingness'.
Authentically shares the tension between his 'doingness' strength and 'beingness' goal.
I realized today that my Dad is a presence practice master.
Realizes his 90-year-old Dad is a presence master whose happiness isn't conditional.
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Part 3: a sight-unseen bid on a Hawaiian property becomes Bliss Island Resort.
I am not a quitter. I have literally never quit on a dream.
Part 2: thirty years chasing a vision-board dream from University of Dreams to Fox Theater.
If you build it, he will come
Part 1: Field of Dreams, vision boards, and the house that haunted him.
I cannot explain why it works, but I'm 100% certain that it does.
Uses the film King Richard to illustrate the power of manifestation.