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he truth involves letting go of those long-held perceptions that keep us imprisoned in patterns of behavior and ways of being which prevent us from living a life of freedom, peace, and joy. Letting go of those beliefs involves looking at ourselves deeply. Understand that for any concrete and lasting change to occur, we have to be willing to change. Without this willingness, we may simply be seeking a change that doesn’t actually involve us!

Many people come to spiritual practice or learn meditation in an effort to induce positive emotional states or to at least minimize negative emotional states. But those feelings of happiness and joy are byproducts of awakening, not the actual awakening itself. The problem is, as long as we chase the byproducts of awakening, we might miss the real thing.

Oftentimes, we have an internal or intuitive sense that something in our lives needs to shift. Sometimes it’s a fleeting thought. At other times, it is a recurring thought that comes and goes as time passes. Sometimes, it’s in the background of everything we do, and we try to suppress or ignore it altogether. It's […]

I was talking to my daughter recently and found myself saying something that would have been unimaginable for most of my life: "I don't need certainty the way I used to." The moment the words came out of my mouth, I realized how much I had changed. For most of my life, I thought I […]

Generosity is the practice of giving freely and wholeheartedly—without expectation, condition, or agenda. When you give from the heart, something naturally opens. Compassion deepens. Loving-kindness expands. But when giving is tied to receiving something in return, it loses its purity. True generosity asks nothing back. In its essence, generosity dissolves the fear of scarcity and […]