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I Will Set You Free (To Create What You Want)

I will set you free to create what you want. What you want is the force of creation trying to grow through you. Desire is the trajectory of the great unfolding. The more free you become, the more the universe expands as you, through you.  Freedom, thus, is the primary mode of all creation. WhateverRead More

Freedom Isn’t Free | Freedom vs Autonomy

The other day, my friend Ryan was explaining the difference between autonomy and freedom to me. I’d never really considered it before. Having benefited greatly from his GMB Fitness trainings in physical autonomy I’d assumed I enjoyed them so much because I was a lover of freedom and autonomy was essentially the same thing. RyanRead More

What if There Are No Defenders?

This is the thought I’ve been thinking since I learned the small branches growing near the bottom of tall trees in early spring are sometimes called ‘defender branches’. In his book ‘How to Read a Tree’, which I enjoyed reading more than any book in years, Tristan Gooley explains that these branches shoot out nearRead More

The Ecstasy of Emptying One’s Heart

One of the deepest lessons I received about giving and receiving was when someone broke into the Volkswagon campervan I was living in in Europe and stole a bunch of my stuff. I was parked on a street in Prague, not far from the main square, and close to one of the public showers. OneRead More

The Winds of Circumstance

We had our friends over for our second son’s birthday party—the one we named Rumi after the Persian poet. Until recently when people he met for the first time asked how old he was, he would say ‘seven’ since that’s how old his brother was.  That is until he, for some reason, got the ideaRead More

The Essence of Having

The thing about having was something I figured out in my hammock on a day in which I’d been reading the dry philosophical work of Martin Heidegger. I like dry philosophy in the same way one might like dry wine. The displeasure of it is part of its character. There’s something pleasurable about what you don’t likeRead More

Doubt is the Call of Belonging

Last night, I had a conversation with a mentor. He is someone that I have looked up to and admired for a long time. We spoke about how conscious leadership is slowly making its way into realms where there is an absolute political and corporate power. The light is getting in. My mentor expressed doubtRead More

From Stress to Serenity

Using my foot to push off the column holding up my front porch, I rocked myself in the hammock. Not one of those lay-down kind of hammocks. It was one of the swinging chair types that hangs from above and in which you are sat more upright. I loved sitting out there and swinging gently inRead More

ANCHOR TO THE WIND: How to Be a Good Person

A couple of weeks ago, I privately shared an insight I’d had with a friend. They were impacted by it and suggested I share it more widely.  I said that I would. But I didn’t.  At least not yet.  I’m telling you this to prepare me to share it with you, now and here.  ButRead More

The Greenest Grass: This is Creating

“We have the greenest grass.” This simple statement holds the prism of the Creating perspective up to the light. By simply speaking it, and allowing your mind to wander with all the things it might mean and do, you can discover all the angles for Creating.  It came through me while free-writing last week asRead More