Tag: Present Moment

• June 2, 2010

  Getting Others’ Approval to Get Your Own

  Guilt is one of the most familiar feelings in the human emotional vocabulary — and one of the most misunderstood. Most people treat guilt as either a signal to be…

• May 29, 2010

  The Ego’s Preference for Drama

  Negative thoughts do not return because you are weak or spiritually deficient. They return because of a pattern — a groove in the mind that was cut long before you…

• May 16, 2010

  Bankruptcy as Surrender

  There is a form of bankruptcy that has nothing to do with finances. It is the spiritual bankruptcy that precedes genuine surrender — the moment when a person’s internal resources,…

• April 18, 2010

  The Moment That Cannot Be Forced

  Nobody schedules a life-changing conversation. You do not sit down and say, “Today at 3pm we are going to have a soul-to-soul moment that changes how I see everything.” It…

• March 30, 2010

  How Trauma Leaks Into Everything

  There is a particular kind of mental spiral that most people have experienced but few can name clearly. It begins with something small — a car that cuts you off…