Educare Unlearning Institute

Home
United States
Grafton, IL
Educare Unlearning Institute

Through courses, retreats, vision quests and coaching we offer an authentic, compassionate space to

10/30/2025

A little bit off

When we don’t love ourselves enough,
we unconsciously try
to get others to take up the slack.

That means they have to love us
in the exact way that we need to love ourselves,
or we resent them.

Something is a little off here.

(Been there, done that.)

10/29/2025

Living Oneness

There are no corners on the market of Truth.
There are as many paths as there are people.

Enlightened spiritual teachers are not
asking you to follow them
by excluding other approaches.

They are encouraging you to find
your path Home
by leaving all for Truth:
by exploring an individualized relationship
with the Divine,
and seeing where that takes you.

The point of spiritual practices
are to get you to continually leave
your identifications
with a conditioned, partial self.
It’s not to make you more comfortable
in your mindsets.

See if your practices fill you with
greater connection and compassion,
instead of differentiation
and spiritual exclusivity.

As we awaken to Oneness,
all our edges soften until we find ourselves
no different from anyone else.
We lose the ability to discount
ourselves or others
for any reason.

10/28/2025

Obviating Judgment

When you see someone
doing something that runs
completely counter to your values
of peaceful coexistence,
can you see that
this is the highest they can reach right now?

This does not condone what they have done.
It just means that you accept in your heart
that they are acting out of ignorance
for how to act differently in this moment.

It also means that
if you feel inspired to take action,
you will act from clarity instead of judgment.

The foundation is that
we are all doing the best we can each moment,
and that if we could access
something more salubrious
we would.

This is how the one universal Intelligence
expresses Itself throughout Its creation.

This obviates judgment.

10/27/2025

Seeing Beyond Walls

In interpersonal relations,
when you think your perspective is correct,
and another’s perspective is incorrect,
you have just placed a useless wall
between the two of you.

It will not serve you,
except to hide behind
as you judge (or blame) your sister or brother.

You can hold differing perspectives
without any wall,
by just seeing each outlook as unalike;
not you as right and them as wrong.

It is the ego that attaches self-righteousness
to a relationship,
to build up a flimsy sense of self.
This is a complete waste of time
as it distracts us from what really matters:
seeing the innate wholeness
and value of each of us,
independent of points of view.

10/26/2025

The Path Home

We are all connected throughout eternity
in and as one universal Being.

That which connects and unifies us
is the same Intelligence
that individualizes us.

But, it does not divide
and pit us against each other.
Estrangement is not our birthright.
It is an ignorant decoy:
a desperate, fleeting image
in this egoic dream of insecurity.

The path home
is to stand authentically in your individuality,
while compassionately embracing
your oneness with each and All.

10/25/2025

Being Aware

Your number one role
is to dis-identify
with the content
in your mind.

(This can take a lot of practice.)

When you do this
you become aware
of that which you are not.

(This can be disconcerting.)

You gradually let go
of everything
you ever thought you were.

(This can be scary or exciting.)

So, if you are none of that content,
what is left?

Since you are still here,
what is left is just you,
as the awareness of Being.

(Try quietly embracing
that you are, always have been,
and ever will be,
the awareness of Being.)

Or, put another way:
You are the way
Being is aware of Its creation.

10/24/2025

Safety First

Never underestimate
the transformative power
of a truly safe relationship.

Safe means
that I can be myself in your presence,
with all my foibles and anxieties,
and no matter how I show up,
you will think no less of me.
You will still love me.

Devote yourself to providing this precious safety,
first for yourself,
and then you will naturally find
the sacred bandwidth
to provide it for others.

10/23/2025

Boomerangs

All judgments boomerang.

Judge yourself
and it comes circling out at others
in your lack of authentic engagement.
Your natural radiance is dulled.
Your innate clarity is blurred.
Your unselfed love is diminished.
And, your wisdom is absent.

Judge another
and it comes rebounding back to you
in your instantaneous loss of compassion.
You only see the hues of your jaded lens.
You miss their primal brilliance,
their essential innocence,
their intrinsic sacredness,
their yearning heart.

Don’t even pick up the boomerang.
If you find yourself holding the weapon,
set it down.
Judgmental boomerangs only cause harm
when they are thrown.

10/22/2025

The Stories that Create Suffering

It is not the content of the stories
that you tell yourself
that brings you suffering.
It is your belief in them.

Stories that create suffering
share at least one of these characteristics:
what is happening now should be different, or
what happened in the past
should not have occurred, or
what will happen in the future
will not be the way you think it should be.

Most of the time we try to substitute a happy story
for a miserable one.
This is a short-term, horizontal fix.
Don’t side-step reality.

If you want to be peaceful,
stop telling stories and believing your delusions.
Your world will become
a place where you (and others) like to live.

10/21/2025

Unanswered Questions

The questions that I ask the Divine
that receive no answer,
are either:
questions asked at the wrong time,
questions that I need to live into the answers,
or questions that are irrelevant
to what will bring me and others
the blessings of Grace.

In this way,
I am delighted when I hear nothing.

10/20/2025

How Amazing is Life!

Each moment contains within it
all that we could ever possibly need
to realize that the fullness of universal Being
is our very being.

It’s just not possible
that life could be
any more amazing than that!

Marinate in the truth that
you already include
all you could ever need
to be fulfilled at the deepest level.

The threshold
to that liberating experience
is through an open and authentic mind and heart:
one that does not get distracted
by fighting with any human facts that appear,
but rather accepts them
while knowing that they are 100% transitory.

Let the earth have its sunrises and sunsets,
while you remain eternally centered
in the radiant stillness and glory
of our one Soul.

10/19/2025

Sacred Intimacy

We are on the planet
to practice and experience
sacred intimacy.

Take a stroll in nature
and feel
its reuniting embrace.

Look deep enough
into the heart
of anyone,
and you will find
yourself.

We all beat
as One.

Address

711 Wind Rivers Drive
Grafton, IL
62037

Website

http://www.educareunlearning.com/, http://www.100daycommitment.com/, http://www.helpingyouliveonpurpose.com/, http://twi

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Educare Unlearning Institute posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Practice

Send a message to Educare Unlearning Institute:

Shortcuts

Want your practice to be the top-listed Clinic in Grafton?