The Conscious Parent

with her, she reminded him of all she had done for him, how much she had sacrificed for him, how she had ...

state and take responsibility for it would be frightening to us, we express ourselves through indirect means ...

another town when he was ten years old. He recalls, “They just sent me. One day I was going to scho ...

Maybe they are right and I was a bad child right from the start.” The rebel role can result from seve ...

of “badness” onto their own children or onto their spouse, casting them in the role of the “evil one.” ...

A CHAPTER 11 A Household Built on Being s adults, we are preoccupied with constant activity. Many of us ...

evaluating, and theorizing. The modern mind is so busy, we have lost our ability to meet a person or a ...

children to get them to be “good.” I watched this happen with a mother and her two children. A fashion ...

leaving her with her nanny. By doing things her own mother never did for her, this mother imagined she was ...

children’s lens on the world. This is the result of feeling such emptiness that, when we look at the wo ...

Paradoxically, when we are caught up in anxiety, we are afraid of actually taking charge of our situation i ...

things. You can’t trust anyone because human beings are untrustworthy. The world is a hellish place to live.” So ...

change and return to our passivity. Believing we need to know the outcome of a situation before getting into ...

will evade us. Until we come to terms with our mortality, we clutter our life with noise and drama, ...

is where the parenting journey becomes enlivened. Cherishing every moment of our children’s existence, we enjoy ea ...

The great ailment of modern society is our grave inability to be with ourselves. We are so anxious, perplexed, ...

simply a manifestation of your deeper purpose. Coming from this place, you no longer engage in one pursu ...

with a little fruit for dinner as they are with a gourmet meal. Their eyes don’t search for things to ...

in song, share jokes, or join in a game of who can get ready first. You can also connect in all sorts o ...

living. How? By their ability to respond to life in its as is form, without the encumbrance of egoic liabilit ...