You don’t have to be introspective or make any changes in order to feel better; there is an alternative. In my twenty-some years of practice and study, I have learned some valuable techniques for handling difficulties without delving into the depths.

Saying yes might be exhausting sometimes, and it will certainly take you out of your comfort zone, but it will absolutely make your world much bigger

Every new author has two fantasies when they publish their first book. The first fantasy is that it will be a runaway best-seller.

Reading through my collegiate musings reminded me of some interesting things: namely, seeing how really very little has changed.

When we entered the year of the Black Water Snake. I knew it was going to be a wild ride: a year whose symbolic energy is turmoil and transformation ain’t going to be easy.

Simply allowing yourself to sit quietly in the in-between times allows you to make meaning of what has passed, and to prepare for what is coming.

Four years ago, I began writing a book.* I had something close to a first draft when I took it to a writer’s group. That first day, one of the members arrived late; she looked as if she had just been spit out of a terrible tornado and plopped, disheveled and wide-eyed, into a corn field. The cause of her distress? She had just published her first book.

I’ve long struggled with the definition of success defined as money and fame. Perhaps real success is all in how you define it.

The peek into turn-of-the-century Edwardian life—a life so radically different from our current age—is mesmerizing. I could say that I am ensorcelled by all of the above, but it’s more than that, I fear.

Forgiveness is how we unblock all the damned up energy inside; it loosens the logjam and restores the natural flow of giving and receiving.

One of the more interesting phenomena of middle age is the recognition of just how very stupid and arrogant you have been up to wherever you find yourself near the halfway point.

It’s not easy being spiritual …

“We must be willing to let go of this life we have planned in order to have the life that is waiting for us.”

We dream our world into being with every thought, every wish, every desire — and every fear. This is because where attention goes, energy flows,

Our ego wants to stay comfortable, it wants to take care of number one. But the soul has higher aspirations. Which do we choose?

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.

The horrible things do not negate the beauty of the world, but neither does the beauty negate the horror. They co-exist, and not necessarily in any sort of balance.

A few thoughts about finding your true purpose.

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.