Tag: Thought-Life

• June 10, 2022

  Living Proof that I am still self-deceived

  Here is one of the most uncomfortable truths in the spiritual life: you can sincerely believe you are doing the work while simultaneously holding back in the exact ways that…

• June 10, 2022

  Who cares to admit?

  Most people who struggle with destructive patterns will tell you they want to change. And many of them believe it. They go to meetings. They read the books. They talk…

• October 25, 2015

  Invite the power into your consciousness

  There is a signal your inner life sends you every day, and most of us miss it. The moment you stop feeling good — truly, genuinely good — you have…

• September 27, 2015

  Raising the bottom

  There is a phrase in recovery circles: “raise your bottom.” The idea is simple but profound. Most people only become willing to do the hard work of real change after…

• June 19, 2015

  Being happy

  Here is a question worth sitting with: if you cannot be happy where you are right now — with your life as it is today — what makes you think…