Mother's Kiss Here's a poem I wrote a few years ago. It is a sort of antidote for when I'm feeling stuck and knotted up, and imagine that I must control my life and its outcomes.
Right Relationship Inquiring into right relationship can serve as a barometer for where we need to direct energy and attention in our lives in order to realize greater harmony and balance.
Cylinders Everywhere The power of dialectical thinking is that we learn to bring two “true but partial” perspectives into dialogue and it results in a richer, more complex sense of reality.
Escaping Ourselves "When, consciously or unconsciously, we use something to escape from ourselves, we become addicted to it."
Media Fasting We’re trading in one of the most meaningful parts of our humanity–the capacity to create–for fleeting stimulation and entertainment that typically leaves us feeling unsatisfied.
Post-cynical A sketch of the progression from naive, to cynical, to post-cynical as orientations to reality.
Appearing, Having, Being Most of us live inside cultures that mistake appearing and having for being, which is the root of a lot of misery.
The Night Sky How many generations of men and women have tilted their heads back and gazed in awe at the vastness and mystery of the night sky?
Indebtedness While traveling through India, it occurred to me how many people have suffered or died to teach us what we know today.
Being in Time The process of narrative creation, by which we situate ourselves in time and define various anchor events, is a kind of magical power.
Transform Bad Circumstances Into The Path Learning to transform the subtle ways we resist what is unfolding around us frees up a tremendous amount of personal energy.
When Are You? 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?
Finding Ourselves in Time "Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew."
Zone of Proximal Development and Inner Conflict 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.
It's Not For Them It takes courage to embrace your own idiosyncratic genius, and be free from image management.
Garbage In, Garbage Out The quality of our thinking is dependent upon the quality of other’s thinking that we absorb.