Center for Personal Growth

If you haven't signed up for my workshop http://centerforpersonalgrowth.typepad.com/blog/ please do so now. And you can still show up at the door as well tomorrow at 10:30.

I am teaching my workshop called Creating a Sustainable Work and Lifestyle this coming Saturday at CIIS in San Francisco. 11am-5pm: http://centerforpersonalgrowth.typepad.com/blog/ Regular fee: $40. Students with student ID: $30. Click on the link below for more information.

Anger and love are both of an organic nature, and that means they both can change. Love can be transformed into hate. You know this very well. Many of us begin ...a relationship with great love, very intense love. So intense that we believe that, without our partner, we cannot survive. Yet if we do not practice mindfulness, it takes only one or two years for our love to be transformed into hatred. Then, in our partner's presence we have the opposite feeling, we feel terrible. It becomes impossible to live together anymore, so divorce is the only way. Love has been transformed into hatred; our flower has become garbage. But with the energy of mindfulness, you can look into the garbage and say, "I am not afraid. I am capable of transforming the garbage back into love. If you see elements of garbage in you, like fear, despair, and hatred, don't panic. As a good organic gardener, a good practitioner, you can face this: "I recognize that there is garbage in me. I am going to transform this garbage into nourishing compost that can make love reappear. - Thich Nhat Hanh, in Anger - Wisdom of Cooling the Flames.

My workshop "Creating a Sustainable Work and Lifestyle" at CIIS in San Francisco on September 12 is now ready for sign up. Cost: $40. Open to anyone. http://alumni.ciis.edu/events/index.asp?eventid=255 CIIS