Author Archives: Louise Gorenflo

The Eight Worldly Concerns identifies the marks of success within a self-centered, competitive culture. The competition game requires the self-centered players to have the willingness to harm others for self-benefit and then ignore the suffering they cause. Earth and life … Continue reading →

Life always seeks to find meaning in the patterns that appear to us. Let us rediscover the patterns that tell the stories of how we can learn to interbe on Earth with other beings in ways that benefit all. Let … Continue reading →

As long as we remain self-centered, our selfishness will find ways to take advantage of the sacred path. Spiritual materialism describes the ways we can make the sacred path into a hierarchy of enlightenment and a vehicle of ignorance. By … Continue reading →

On the sacred path, we learn the sacredness and equality of life on Earth. The Earth Interbeing has no hierarchy. Because of our roots in Western culture, we struggle with equality. We may understand it conceptually, but we do not … Continue reading →

Our longing to have more covers and defiles our longing for unity with the sacred. Western culture has equated happiness with material possession. We always look outside of ourselves for the solutions to our problems and for what we want. … Continue reading →

Every being has their own ways of understanding a situation. The wise family respects the voices of every member to learn from others a common way forward. From this collective wisdom, the family discerns how to respond to challenging situations … Continue reading →

Resistance to change challenges us on the sacred path at every step. We have temptations to back away from the unknowns of this sacred path and to stay with the apparent safety of the known ways of Western living. Yet … Continue reading →

Experiencing anxiety when deciding about what to do points to a potential values misalignment. Deep within our being we know that what we want to do conflicts with an important life value, causing us distress. The anxiety makes it difficult … Continue reading →

At the root of envy and jealousy for the success of others we find a toxic shame for our deficiencies, of not being good enough to have what we see others having. Thus, we prove our worthiness to others through … Continue reading →

When we view the sacred and the sacred Earth as two sides of the same coin, we move beyond the patriarchal view of perceiving the sacred and Earth as subject and object, father and mother. As sacred beings, we seek … Continue reading →