Albert Einstein once said that every one of us is forced to ask and answer a single question: Is the universe a friendly place? The answer you give determines to a great extent the quality of your life and, indeed, the shape of your destiny. Why? Because if you believe that the universe is an unfriendly […]
There’s something about geese that has always evoked my heart. Part of my affection comes from the fact that they fly in community, squawking at one another like old married couples. They land in the water with a gangly innocence that suggests that they still haven’t got this flying thing down. And when they walk around […]
When I was just a small boy, my Aunt Tessie used to tell me to go swimming on August 15th, the day that commemorates the Feast of the Assumption, when Mary, the mother of Jesus, was taken, body and soul, into heaven. “The Holy Mother blesses the water all over the world,” Aunt Tessie used to […]
Knowing your dream means knowing yourself. This is an unfolding process that will take a lifetime. The shortcut to your dream is to listen to your heart and follow its impulses in a grounded, practical, and healthy way.
Here are seven steps to knowing your heart, and following its guidance.
Once there was a little boy who lived in a cottage by a vast wood. His mother and father regularly warned him not to get too close to the wood, or, heaven forbid, wander into the forest, because it was a magical forest and once he entered he would get lost and never return to his […]
Many traditional societies saw an implicit order in life that we moderns often fail to see. Among the more important lessons that traditional people drew from such an order was that every stage of life offers a specific set of challenges and lessons that add to our maturity and support our individuation.
In the early part of […]
Sometimes life offers us the healing we long for in the most surprising and unexpected ways. That’s what has happened to me over the past few years. In ways that I would have never guessed possible, some of the more troubled parts of my life have been transformed, especially a certain quarter of my being that […]
Last summer, I boarded a small plane in London for a flight to Brussels and soon found myself encountering a dark and terrified part of my being.
The jet was little more than a narrow tube that, if I stretched my arms out in each direction, I might have been able to touch both walls. When I […]
On a single piece of paper write the following message: I am but dust and ashes. On a separate sheet write, “For my sake the world was created.” Place each piece of paper in separate pockets and live from both truths. […]
Recently, I was in Europe to conduct a series of workshops, including a program on intimate relationships. The group was composed mostly of couples, but there was also a fair number of single people who were looking for ways to improve communication in their next relationship.
One of the couples in the workshop had been married for […]
