Thought-Life Connection

• March 9, 2010

  Daily Application March 10, 2010

  There is a tension at the center of the spiritual life: you are a unique individual with your own specific desires, history, and way of being in the world —…

• March 8, 2010

  Daily Application March 9, 2014

  There is a specific kind of suffering that almost no one talks about honestly: the experience of knowing your thinking is distorted, but not being able to stop it. Your…

• March 1, 2010

  Daily Application March 2, 2010

  One of the most subtle but damaging things a person can do is collapse their entire identity into a single role. The stay-at-home mother who becomes only a mother. The…

• February 28, 2010

  Daily Application March 1, 2010

  Spiritual fitness is not about being positive all the time. It is about having the discipline to recognize when you have been running on negative energy — and then doing…

• February 23, 2010

  Daily Application February 24, 2010

  One of the most revealing spiritual exercises you can do is also one of the simplest: spend an entire day trying not to reference the past. Do not think from…