Relationship as a Practice
Here is a passage from my 2005 Bestseller, “The Translucent Revolution.” As with every other area of our lives, there is a symbiotic relationship between the depth of our translucence and the way we...
View ArticleWhat an evening!
Hey! Did you catch our conversation tonight with Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks? We loved everything that unfolded. If you missed it, please listen to the replay here. If you were on the call, please post...
View ArticleBecoming an Agent of Collective Healing
I decided to do something a little different for my blog this week. Usually I write a lot for you, but today I wanted to connect with you a little more more personally. Is it possible for one human...
View ArticleDo Collective Apologies Heal or Harm?
It’s hard to believe that 150 years ago, white people owned black people in 23 states. Slavery ended with the surrender of General Lee in 1865. Chief Justice Roger Taney, on behalf of the U.S. Supreme...
View ArticleOthering: How to Use Current Events for Your Own Evolution
The word “other” is commonly used in English as both an adjective and a pronoun. As an adjective: “born on the other side of the tracks.” As a pronoun: “if it’s not one thing, it’s the other.” Today...
View ArticleOvercoming Fear of Success
Consider the sad and ominous story of JasonRussell. His name may have already flashed past you by now, in the whirlwind of current events. So let me remind you: Along with three of his buddies, Jason...
View ArticleCyberventing: Does the internet bring out the worst in us?
A couple of years ago I spent a very pleasant few days over New Year’s Eve at a conference in Monterey, California. One of the other speakers was my old friend, Coleman Barks, who most of us know for...
View ArticleAn Epidemic of Awakening
Two thousand five hundred years ago, there was a prince in India, named Siddhartha. He was destined to be the next king. But he had such a strong longing that he left everything. He left his wife, his...
View ArticleMelting Resistance
The process of melting resistance is really the process of relaxing the grip of our accumulated systems of belief, which we often lump together and call “the mind.” We resist things as they are when...
View ArticleNot Crazy, Not Busy
My new book Radical Brilliance came out recently, and so I am doing interviews about it. Recently, a friend and colleague invited me to be a guest on her podcast. We talked directly on the phone...
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