[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]image ©Disney Corporation, 2005[/featured-image] If the line that we see the world not as it is but as we are is true (and I’m convinced it is), there are a lot of dark, fearful, negative, cynical people in the world who look around them and see only despair, only things to fear,Continue reading ““The Sky Is Not Falling!””
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On Suffering, Loss, and Being Okay
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”suffering”]123rf.com[/featured-image] I’m developing a capacity for suffering, for losing people I love, and yet I know deep down that I will be okay. In fact, I know it because of the suffering and loss. I know you’ll be okay too. I want to share with you how I’ve come to know this. AContinue reading “On Suffering, Loss, and Being Okay”
What My Perfect Post Would Say
I realized today that my obsession with blogging is actually a search for the perfect post. I want to write a post that can heal the wounds of all who read it, that can turn a selfish reader into a selfless one, that can convince every reader that they don’t have to worry about theirContinue reading “What My Perfect Post Would Say”
On Being a Non-Anxious Presence
Ultimately all you really have to give to another person is yourself. And that is enough. Presence is the most powerful force in the universe, humanly speaking. When I go to hospitals to visit sick and scared people, they already know I can’t fix them and they don’t expect me to. What they really needContinue reading “On Being a Non-Anxious Presence”
Be the Change
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”] One of Gandhi’s most famous quotes is, “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” This pretty well wraps up the heart of true spirituality. True spirituality stops “waiting on the world to change,” recognizing that the world will not change until individual human beings change. The reason thisContinue reading “Be the Change”
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