Jarl Says

Desire is a concept, which has fascinated me over the years. Some say desire is a distraction, always pulling our attention from the present into the future. Others say it is a necessary motivati...

http://jarlsays.blogspot.com/2009/07/hamster-wheel-of-desire.html

When I live spontaneously I open to being touched by unexpected sweetness! On my way back to Sausalito after teaching tai chi in Berkeley today, I made a spur of the moment decision to take mysel...

http://jarlsays.blogspot.com/2009/06/unexpected-spontaneous-sweetness.html

My dad was 83 and had been in the care home for three weeks when he said to me, sitting next to his bed, “I don’t think you want to see this.” “See what,” I asked? See you die?” I kne...

http://jarlsays.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-daddy.html

A study of history reveals that in the past 3,000 years, we have records of over 5,000 wars on this planet Earth. War seems to be a popular past time. When we look into our own lives and notice h...

http://jarlsays.blogspot.com/2009/06/yin-and-yang-consciousness.html

Our experience of life is created by our perception of what’s happening moment by moment. This perception is a result of our basic nature and our conditioning, which is the sum total of all our...

http://jarlsays.blogspot.com/2009/06/is-it-true.html

About 10 years ago I was driving my car one morning and a very clear and distinct voice inside my head said, “If you will just relax and let me run the show, I will do such a better job than yo...

http://jarlsays.blogspot.com/2009/05/are-you-needed-to-run-your-life.html

Dear Jarl, The thing is, my research tells me swine flu is a LABORATORY virus. A combo of 3 viruses bird, swine, human, a super virus potentially. History tells us Hitler and the SS developed an...

http://jarlsays.blogspot.com/2009/04/swine-flu-discussion.html

Change seems to be the word for 2009! It’s about time we embrace the only constant in our lives. What a beautiful concept and yet how we fear it. Imagine if things didn’t change. How boring w...

http://jarlsays.blogspot.com/2008/12/only-real-change-necessary-from-fear-to.html

Your Political Consciousness is Showing! The motivation for the way a person votes says a lot about their level of social and moral consciousness or development. Ken Wilber has written a book ca...

http://jarlsays.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-did-you-vote-and-why.html

Regarding politics, race, or religion, when we criticize or condemn, we are usually projecting an unconscious part of ourselves onto the person or people condemned. This is the nature of all “i...

http://jarlsays.blogspot.com/2008/07/rewrite.html

As Shakespeare said, “Nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so.” If I may be so bold, I would like to expand upon this point. “Nothing is good or bad but believing makes it so.” Wh...

http://jarlsays.blogspot.com/2008/07/nothing-is-good-or-bad-but-thinking.html

Socrates said, “A unexamined life is not worth living.” Introspection is key to living a fulfilled and satisfying life. Having a daily practice of tai chi, meditation, self-reflection and inq...

http://jarlsays.blogspot.com/2008/05/marshal-art-of-life.html

Last Sunday, our friend Anyo, Steve and I were sailing out in the bay when out of the literally beautiful blue our boat struck an underwater "historical" former pier piling! With a jolt and a (g)...

http://jarlsays.blogspot.com/2008/04/successful-fiasco.html

I've known for some time now that Love and Gratitude are the keys to living a life in flow. They now seem to me to be the solution to most of life's problems. Two small but powerful sentences, I ...

http://jarlsays.blogspot.com/2007/11/thank-you-i-love-you.html

"Desire and Gratitude can never co-exist. When you feel one desire after another, it means that you are not living with gratitude. When you live with gratitude, you can never have any desires. Wh...

http://jarlsays.blogspot.com/2007/11/attitude-of-gratitude.html

In the past 3,000 years, we have records of over 5,000 wars. Revolution is apparently not effective. Why haven’t we noticed? Einstein said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing ove...

http://jarlsays.blogspot.com/2007/11/from-revolution-to-evolution_19.html

The Universe keeps amazing me! I am continually blown away by seemingly coincidental happenings. The most recent was so cool, I just have to write about it. I must begin, though, with a bit of hi...

http://jarlsays.blogspot.com/2007/11/magical-universe.html

What we truly want is to become Authentically Ourselves--to live in awareness of our True Self. To discover who we truly are is our purpose in life. The ego always wants what it doesn’t have. T...

http://jarlsays.blogspot.com/2007/06/do-we-ever-really-know-what-we-want-in.html

Today in my tai chi class, a conversation about victims ensued after the mention of a story of someone getting their wallet stolen. The question arose: are victim experiences so by chance or by c...

http://jarlsays.blogspot.com/2007/05/victims-is-there-really-such-thing.html

It’s natural and common to have opinions and personal thoughts about everything going on and also natural to express our thoughts and opinions about everything occurring. It’s what defines us...

http://jarlsays.blogspot.com/2007/04/paradigm-shift-in-consciousness.html

While dining at my friend’s house recently, I expressed how happy I was that a family reunion to celebrate our mother's birthday went so smoothly and lovingly. I mentioned to my friend that I h...

http://jarlsays.blogspot.com/2007/04/asking-universe.html

There is much ado about the newly released book and film “The Secret.” It’s been discussed on Oprah and even Larry King Live. There’s flack coming from all angles, from those who think th...

http://jarlsays.blogspot.com/2007/03/secret.html

Last week, Steve and I were in Omaha, Nebraska on our way to Lincoln to help move his grandmother into an assisted living apartment. While planning our trip we decided to stay a couple of days in...

http://jarlsays.blogspot.com/2007/03/om-aha-coincidence.html

Bryon Katie has a new book out with her husband Stephen Mitchell called, "A Thousand Names For Joy". In this book, she responds to excerpts from Mitchell's translation of the "Tao Te Ching" by La...

http://jarlsays.blogspot.com/2007/02/byron-katie.html

Neil, a friend and former student of mine, and I were discussing the lesson of a Zen/Taoist tale. Neither of us could remember the actual tale but the lesson was that happiness/contentment/peace ...

http://jarlsays.blogspot.com/2007/02/two-tales.html