A friend said this to me recently with such conviction it made my heart sink. “I don’t know” is never true, but it is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The more you say it, the more you push the answers away. If she had said, “I don’t want to know,” …
Have you ever known someone who made a practice of complaining? I have. He could gripe about anything. And consequently, he found a lot to gripe about. I don’t think he even knew he was doing it. Finding fault is a habit. So is finding peace. Being …
It can be maddening to wait for world leaders to decide peace is the only sane way forward. So, a reminder: World peace is not something they decide for us. World peace is something we choose every day, minute, and second. Commit to your own inner …
When you’re learning to ride a horse, and you start moving faster than a walk, your instinct is to look down. You want to see the horse, your legs, and the ground in front of you. For some reason you feel safe that way. I suppose there is some …
Do you ever spend too much time following the news and start to feel completely demotivated? That’s been me over the last month or so. It looks like the world is falling apart, so who cares what I do — does any of it matter? Ugh. What a disempowered …
Autobiography of a Yogi is a powerful book. It’s a modern day account of the spiritual masters of India, written by someone who is himself considered a spiritual master of India. Yogananda could have chosen to share his stories as allegories or …
You can’t really follow someone else’s path through life, certainly not step for step. But a part of us always wants to try. “Other people, in whatever context they are found, are a tough place in which to find yourself and discover your own path. In …
These are undoubtedly troubled times. A pandemic combined with social unrest, unsavory politics, and extreme weather — the personal turmoil seems acute because we’re all going through this at the same time. But the truth is, even without a …
