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Spirituality
Amidst all the stress, chaos, and turmoil of everyday life, there's someone in there, inside of you, noticing it all. That someone is the real you, and cannot be knocked down or thrown around. The moment you realize this, you enter a new realm of being.
It's All Right Here
We spend so much of our waking hours thinking about what's next, or what we don't have but wish we did. We put virtually all our focus on...
Aug 17, 20212 min read
The Life That You Are
We all dream for that life. You know, the one where you're truly happy. The one you look forward to in the future. Or perhaps, if you're...
Jun 30, 20212 min read
The Wave With Eyes
Imagine you are the ocean - all infinite waters, stretching around the globe, expanding far beyond the mind can conceive. Within this...
Jun 22, 20212 min read
Trust Your Future Self. You Always Handle It.
I spend a lot of time worrying about the future. Even the most mundane, micro moments that are soon to happen, quickly become the focal...
May 23, 20212 min read
Is Travel What You Actually Want? Or Is It Something Deeper?
What do vacations, travel, new experiences, food, drugs, and alcohol all have in common? Whether we know it or not, most of us use all of...
May 16, 20212 min read
Are You Open or Closed to Life?
Your interaction with life is pretty simple. You're either closed, or you're open. There's no in between. Different moments of life may...
May 9, 20212 min read
The River That Flows Within
Your experience of life is like a river flowing through you. The important thing to remember is that whatever is flowing through you now...
May 5, 20212 min read
New Beginnings
We often say cheers to new beginnings, seldom remembering that every moment is in fact a new beginning. It may not feel like it because...
Apr 21, 20212 min read
Doing and Facing What You Don't Want
So much of our lives involves confronting uncomfortable situations. These situations, whether they happen in the outside world or within...
Apr 18, 20212 min read
What's Stopping You?
You're standing there, probably with some desire in your heart and mind. So what's stopping you from obtaining that desire? The first...
Apr 11, 20213 min read
The Suffering Between
I have a noisy upstairs neighbor. If you've ever lived in an apartment, I'd bet you've had one too. But amidst all the clanging and...
Apr 4, 20212 min read
A Signpost Back To Now
Circumstances change, but the human experience doesn't. Rich, famous, poor, homeless. Addicted to drugs, obsessed with sports. Whatever...
Mar 31, 20213 min read
It Never Ends
If you think about it, nothing really ever ends. The ups and the downs, the beauty and the destruction - it all continues to play out,...
Mar 28, 20212 min read
Coming Home
No matter what stage of life you're in, you're always free to come back home. Sometimes, the further you are away from home, the stronger...
Mar 24, 20212 min read
Home
Every day is new. Yet every day is the same. When will you realize it's not the world that must change? Every day you wake up, then go to...
Mar 21, 20211 min read
Perspective of the Cosmos
We often hear that perspective is everything. If this is true, then how do we tap into this so called perspective? What does the view...
Mar 17, 20212 min read
How To Meditate No Matter What You're Doing
When we hear the word meditation, we often think about a dimly lit room with a cushion and maybe a candle or two. We picture a zen corner...
Mar 14, 20212 min read
Will The Future Be That Different?
Ah, hope for the future. You know, that excitement you feel thinking about what's to come. The next job. The new house. The upcoming...
Mar 7, 20212 min read
When Thoughts Are Like Glue
If you think about it, your thoughts are like glue. So sticky in fact, you can't even get unstuck from them. You may even be at the point...
Feb 24, 20213 min read
When Life Opens A Road, Take It
Today was a nice day. After a brutal winter storm week in Texas, USA, consisting of days without without heat, power, and water, today...
Feb 21, 20212 min read
Amidst the Storm
What to do, when there’s nothing to do? Where to look, when there’s nothing to see? What to listen to, when all you hear is silence? The...
Feb 18, 20211 min read
Handling The Discomforts Of Life
Sometimes life asks us to do things we're not comfortable with. Scratch that. Life always asks us to do things we're not comfortable...
Feb 11, 20213 min read
What Are We Chasing In Our Lives?
What is it that we truly want in life? Amidst the hustle and bustle of our chaotic schedules and frantic lives, what are we chasing? More...
Feb 7, 20212 min read
It's Not Happening Until It's Happening
How often do you find yourself stressing about upcoming commitments, events that sometimes aren't until a few weeks, months, or even...
Jan 31, 20212 min read
What's Next, What's Next, What's Next?
Have you ever found yourself in a perpetual state of anxiously awaiting the next moment? You know, when you're in a rush, and you can't...
Jan 28, 20213 min read
A Reminder On Stress
The essence of stress is that it comes from resistance to what is. Whether that be something unfolding in the outside world, or something...
Jan 24, 20212 min read
Where Is Home, Anyway?
Home can be many things to people. For some, it's a house. For other's, it's another person. Of course, we all know that home, at its...
Jan 20, 20212 min read
We're All Doing The Same Thing, Just Differently
We're all doing the same thing. It just happens to look vastly different, depending on who we are. Regardless of how it looks on the...
Jan 17, 20212 min read
Two Worlds
We live in two worlds. There's the outside world we're all familiar with. That's the one we spend our lives trying to change, mold, and...
Jan 13, 20212 min read
The Ignorant Snowflake
We can learn a lot from nature. After all, we are part of it. And yet the general consensus seems to be that we are somehow separate....
Jan 11, 20213 min read
Now More Than Ever, Watch Your Ego
When tensions rise, emotions boil, and riots emerge, one thing is for certain: The ego is at play. Whether you're observing the chaos...
Jan 6, 20211 min read
Handling Dread
Dread is a difficult thing to experience. It's like we know what's coming, so we get all worked up over it before it happens. If you...
Jan 3, 20212 min read
Finding Peace At The Post Office
We've all been there. At some point in our lives, the time comes for us to make a trek over to our beloved post office, where we're...
Dec 30, 20203 min read
But How Are You, Now?
You‘re anxious. You’re depressed. You lack hope, and you’re scared for the future. But, while all of those conditions are taking over...
Dec 27, 20202 min read
Remember There's Only Now, Especially During This Holiday Season
Between times of difficulty, and perhaps during them as well, always remember that there's only this moment. Sure, last night might have...
Dec 23, 20202 min read
Like A Child
When a child comes into this world, she looks at her surroundings without naming anything. Just pure awareness, taking it all in. What if...
Dec 20, 20202 min read
The Wondrous Spec That We Are
What if we approached everything in life by first remembering that we are living, conscious beings on a tiny spec in a vast universe?...
Dec 16, 20202 min read
It's Your World, No One Else's
You live in two worlds. One of them you share with everyone else. But I'm not talking about that one here. The other one, your own inner...
Dec 14, 20202 min read
Letting Go of Attachments
Finding where you're attached is easy. Letting go of that attachment is the hard part. In my life, I'm constantly noticing my...
Dec 9, 20203 min read
Dear Presence, Why Are You So Elusive?
Goodbye presence, Hello distraction. You're back so soon. I was hoping you'd give me a break, so I could spend time with presence. But...
Dec 6, 20201 min read
Catching It Early
The greatest chance you have at keeping internal peace is to catch the suffering when it arises. We all know it's hard, oftentimes...
Dec 2, 20203 min read
How Long Before You Let It Go?
Have you ever noticed that after something unpleasant happens, you tend to hold onto it throughout the day, week, or even month? It's...
Nov 25, 20202 min read
It's Always Something
Have you ever noticed how as soon as one problem goes away, the next one shows up? Like clockwork, problems seem to throw themselves at...
Nov 22, 20203 min read
What Just Happened?
Since the final call of the next American president, millions of people are now rejoicing around the world. Most of us take this for...
Nov 8, 20202 min read
Ease Up or Tense Up?
We take it for granted that life is about getting what we want. We spend all our time going after things, trying to shape the world...
Nov 1, 20203 min read
The Blank Canvas
As I sit here to write, as always, I start by looking at a blank canvas. And then I realize, wow, the blank canvas can be intimidating....
Oct 28, 20202 min read
What Do You Actually Know To Be True?
We know much less to be true than we think. But what does it mean to truly know something? Is merely reading it in a book enough?...
Oct 25, 20203 min read
You're Wrong
If you think the problem is somewhere else, you're wrong. If you think you hate something, you're wrong. As hard as it might be to...
Oct 21, 20202 min read
Stop Rearranging The Outside World
If you think about it, all we really do in life is try to rearrange the outside world so that our inside world feels a certain way. The...
Oct 18, 20203 min read
Respecting Your Self
A big challenge our ego presents us with is its ability to second guess our decisions. We want to do something, and then someone else has...
Oct 11, 20202 min read
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