Indebtedness
December 2019
While traveling through India, it occurred to me how many people have suffered or died to teach us what we know today.
December 2019
While traveling through India, it occurred to me how many people have suffered or died to teach us what we know today.
December 2019
The process of narrative creation, by which we situate ourselves in time and define various anchor events, is a kind of magical power. The more we are able to consciously construct our narratives and their implied horizons, the more control we have over how we spend our time and energy each day. The more we can become the primary creative force in our life.
December 2019
“All things are not shining, but all the shining things are.”
November 2019
Learning to transform the subtle ways we resist what is unfolding around us frees up a tremendous amount of personal energy.
November 2019
Ambivalence is a useful experience to get to know more intimately.
October 2019
Throughout the day, we move around in time. I wonder what a graph would look like that plotted "when you were" at 1-minute intervals throughout the day. What kinds of patterns might we see? Are you a past-dweller, nostalgically longing for the better days? Are you charging full-speed into the future?
October 2019
"Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew."
September 2019
Without practice in this domain, most of us experience our internal conflicts as a continuous power struggle that plays out just below our conscious awareness, bubbling up in periodic spells of confusion, doubt or difficult emotion.
September 2019
It takes courage to embrace your own idiosyncratic genius, and be free from image management.
September 2019
The quality of our thinking is dependent upon the quality of other’s thinking that we absorb.
September 2019
Efficient cycles of engagement support a satisfying life. Inefficiencies create challenges for us. Too much activation or engagement creates chronic stress, tension, and anxiousness. Too much inhibition or disengagement creates depression, emptiness, and collapse.
September 2019
How do we stay engaged in our current cultural moment, while also recognizing the deeper forces of time and history?
August 2019
Claiming our role in building a rich surround of relationship is a profound act of personal leadership that will enhance our lives for years to come.
One practical consequence of being able to recognize the undifferentiated phenomenological continuum is that the pervasive sense of separateness and working against the world that many of us carry begins to dissolve.
July 2019
Does it ever occur to you that in each moment the entirety of the human experience is happening?
July 2019
Different situations call for different rhythms.
July 2019
I hope to maximize the number of life changing conversations I participate in.
July 2019
How can we embrace ourselves in the face of "ugliness"?
July 2019
We become as we are beheld.
June 2019
Our "inquiring system", or the way that we inquire into ourselves, others, and the world undergoes change across our lifespan.