We Were Made For These Times
The world is made up of stories. A secret web of agreements about what is “right” and “wrong”, what is...
The Positivity Ratio
Imagine you’re a water lily. It’s early dawn and your petals are closed in around your face. If you can see anything at all,...
It Is Life That Asks The Questions Of Us
The question can no longer be “What can I expect from life?” but can now only be “What does life expect of me?”...
Mass Movement
We see throughout the world extremes of poverty and riches, abundance and at the same time starvation; we have class distinction and...
Four Types Of Listening
In my years of working with groups and organizations, I have identified four basic types of listening. “Ya, I know that...
Inclining Toward Freedom, Even Through Imperfections
If we focus only on awakening, we miss most of the spiritual practice. I’m much more interested in how we practice with not...
From Transaction To Trust
The most precious and important things in life are, by definition, nontransactional. And to try to bargain for them is to immediately...
The River Cannot Go Back
It is said that before entering the sea a river trembles with fear. She looks back at the path she has traveled, from the peaks of the...
To Find Something, Don't Look For It
Between takeoff and landing, we are each in suspended animation, a pause between chapters of our lives. When we stare out the window into...
What Can You Trust?
In young people’s minds right now, the main issue is what they can trust in their own experience. In the 50s and 60s, we trusted...
Harder I Work, The More I Love
Burnout is being disconnected from Source. I don’t think it’s as related as we'd like to think, to working too long or...
Opposite Of Meditation Is Not Action, It's Reaction
It seems like our society is at a low point in terms of how we talk about challenging, controversial topics within our political...