My cat was just sitting there on the rock wall between my driveway and the kids’ playground on the side of our house. She wasn’t hunting. She was just sitting there, not doing anything. What struck me at that moment was that she didn’t seem worried about anything at all. Her mind seemed vacant. HerRead More
Ten years ago, while walking through a crowded train station in central London, I stopped and with a wide-angle lens, I shot an impromptu 3-minute and 48-second rant about how I was Sick of Self-Help. Having just reviewed the video brought back fond memories of how wild and free I was then, capturing my thoughtsRead More
Last night, I woke around midnight with a series of ideas flowing through my head. They were ideas inspired by recent conversations with my wife and then stoked by an interview I watched before bed. What Kalpna and I were discussing the day prior was her insight that her relationship with her meditations was underminingRead More
My relationship with the appearance of words or phrases in my mind has evolved in recent years. Long have I considered the arising of ideas as coming from an intuitive voice that can guide us, but always have I considered the content of those ideas to be sourced from what we already know on someRead More
My son asked me what heaven was. I explained to him that some people believe that when we die, we go to a place where we are with everyone we love and where it is peaceful and everybody is happy. “I don’t believe that.” He’s turning eight next month and deep in the process ofRead More
An unopened LiteBrite is sitting on the shelf in our bedroom closet. The toy from the 80s that you or a childhood friend probably had. It is there because we keep a few good gifts in supply for when school friends’ birthdays pop up and we don’t have time to go pick something up. I’dRead More
My wife Kalpna teases me that I have a bad memory. She may be right, but it doesn’t feel good to consider. In her swan song keynote for the Being Movement’s Ultimate Experience event last weekend, Amy Hardison shared the romantic idea of growing old in partnership by using each other’s atrophying memory together toRead More
“Geeze, when you said wealthy, you weren’t kidding!” I said. The long palm tree-lined cement driveway had appeared at the end of a long nondescript farm road. It was a road I’d passed on the highway countless times as it was less than a mile from our home here in Maui. As we made ourRead More
My wife and I were sitting on the sofa of our shadow and relationship therapist Ed Fell when he asked her a question. “Do you ever feel John isn’t receiving your love?” Ding. Easy 10 points for me. She’ll certainly say ‘no’. “Yes, all the time.” “Whaaat?” I said looking straight at her. “Are youRead More
There is a way of loving yourself that you have only begun to understand. The opportunity for this way occurs in the present moment, always. And it is in reference not to your behaviors, your actions, or even your way of being in the world. This way of loving yourself is so close, so rightRead More
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