I Surrender
Surrendering is getting out of your own way. Far from giving up, true surrender is liberation: freed from a limited perspective of “it must be this!” surrender opens us to something more.
On Surviving the 10,000 Sorrows
One of the most difficult challenges we have as humans is facing what is, especially when life presents you with things you didn’t order and don’t want: like everything in 2020
A First Time for Everything
There's a country song with the catchy little phrase: "When was the last time you did something for the first time?" Those words have (annoyingly) stuck with me because, well, I haven't done very much at all for the first time in a long time. This is not good.
Embracing Adversity
It’s counter-intuitive to take a blow without doing something, anything, to defend oneself. When your marriage is a mess or your body betrays you or you’re on a financial cliff edge, the tendency is to become two years old again and have a hissy fit.
Wu Wei: The Art of Non-Doing
There are all sorts of crossroads that pop-up throughout our lives, some big, some small. Sometimes, we need to wait a bit before we know which road to take.