Tag: Awareness

• March 9, 2010

  The Wave on the Ocean

  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

  Two Different Problems That Work Together

  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…

• February 28, 2010

  The Universe Runs on Balance

  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 16, 2010

  Love in Action: The Daily Practice

  Every day you choose — consciously or not — what kind of person you are going to be. Character is not a fixed thing you either have or do not…

• February 9, 2010

  A Practice of Infinite Perspective

  Most of us spend our lives feeling small — like a minor character in a story being written by forces much larger than ourselves. But what if the opposite is…