Sometimes it’s a subtle nudge. Other times it’s an insistent desire. We can’t tell if we’re being pulled toward something or pushed away from something else,...
It’s liberating to realize that you don’t have to have an opinion about everything. It’s okay not to know. It’s okay to withhold judgment, wait, and...
One of the prevailing narratives in pop culture is that work is for suckers. We wallow in fantasies of winning the lottery, picking the right stock,...
Meditation is the fine art of stillness. It’s difficult at first because our mind, like a torrent after a storm, doesn’t know how to be still....
The world is sometimes a hard and painful place. Where can we go for refuge? Is there a safe harbor where we can feel our own...
What’s the point of being a good person? Nobody else seems to be bothering, so why should we? It’s every man for himself, right? But something...
Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Buddha likened our normal, everyday awareness to being asleep. Vedanta teaches that the world presented to us...
When we think of the word treasure we think of Trump-like wealth, Smaug’s lair, or a buried trunk of pirate booty. But upon deeper reflection we...
I think a lot about aging and dying these days. No, nothing happened. I’m fine. It just hits you sometimes — we don’t have forever. If...
