By choosing to grow through your experiences, and by having the intention to connect with others, you will discover joy. You will live your purpose.

There is a mantra I love that can help enormously with this process we call Life, a mantra that really should be a Core Principle for Living. Here it is.

“If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while … and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.” 

If you’re not inherently sync with the Christmas crush, you might actually be exactly where your soul needs to be.

When you are anxious, scared, or confused, it is a sign that you need to shift out of your ego and into your soul. That’s where the power of Now comes in.

The degree to which we suffer is the degree to which we experience joy. Our pain is, in fact, our gain — if we remain open and receptive to it.

One of my favorite quotes, torn and taped to my desk, is this one, attributed to Joseph Campbell: “We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

You are love even if you live in your head and forget about love. You are love even if you don’t feel loving, even if you feel lonely. Your true essence, is LOVE.

One of the most difficult things in the world is to know who you really are. For over two decades I’ve  followed the Greek maxim inscribed at the Temple of Delphi: “Know thyself.” And I think I do. I think I’m a salmon.

Civility suffers in a fast-moving, perpetually preoccupied and self-centered society. In fact, civility cannot exist alongside narcissism: the two are mutually exclusive. And ours is a painfully, often obscenely narcissistic culture.

Our lives are so much more than what we can see when the sun is shining. The dark times open us to a greater revelation. The darkness opens a dialogue with soul.

How do we find Soul in a noisy, gadget-gawking, consumption-oriented society that constantly pulls our attention away from our inner life?

Connecting with our soul animates us. Awakening to our soul’s desire we come into our perfection, our truth, our reason for being.

It’s terrifying to lose what you valued, disorienting not to know who or where you are, frightening to face into the darkness, but it’s also freeing.