The hardest person to awaken is the person already awake!

This Tagalog (Filipino) adage is wonderfully subtle and far-reaching in application. What are the things that a conscious person needs to be awakened from? Certitudes. Old wives’ tales. Fear-filled superstitions. Comfortable behaviors. The way things have always been done. Even when we think we are being ruggedly independent, my experience is that we’ll awake to find ourselves trailing along after age-old human practices and conventions. We’ll learn that we are really just “creatures of habit”… Continue reading →