It's All Right Here
We spend so much of our waking hours thinking about what's next, or what we don't have but wish we did. We put virtually all our focus on...
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Spirituality
Amidst all the stress, chaos, and turmoil of everyday life, there's someone in there, inside of you, noticing it all. That someone is the real you, and cannot be knocked down or thrown around. The moment you realize this, you enter a new realm of being.
- Jun 30, 2021
- 2 min
The Life That You Are
We all dream for that life. You know, the one where you're truly happy. The one you look forward to in the future. Or perhaps, if you're...
- Jun 22, 2021
- 2 min
The Wave With Eyes
Imagine you are the ocean - all infinite waters, stretching around the globe, expanding far beyond the mind can conceive. Within this...
- May 23, 2021
- 2 min
Trust Your Future Self. You Always Handle It.
I spend a lot of time worrying about the future. Even the most mundane, micro moments that are soon to happen, quickly become the focal...
- May 16, 2021
- 2 min
Is Travel What You Actually Want? Or Is It Something Deeper?
What do vacations, travel, new experiences, food, drugs, and alcohol all have in common? Whether we know it or not, most of us use all of...
- May 9, 2021
- 2 min
Are You Open or Closed to Life?
Your interaction with life is pretty simple. You're either closed, or you're open. There's no in between. Different moments of life may...
- May 5, 2021
- 2 min
The River That Flows Within
Your experience of life is like a river flowing through you. The important thing to remember is that whatever is flowing through you now...
- Apr 21, 2021
- 2 min
New Beginnings
We often say cheers to new beginnings, seldom remembering that every moment is in fact a new beginning. It may not feel like it because...
- Apr 18, 2021
- 2 min
Doing and Facing What You Don't Want
So much of our lives involves confronting uncomfortable situations. These situations, whether they happen in the outside world or within...
- Apr 11, 2021
- 3 min
What's Stopping You?
You're standing there, probably with some desire in your heart and mind. So what's stopping you from obtaining that desire? The first...
- Apr 4, 2021
- 2 min
The Suffering Between
I have a noisy upstairs neighbor. If you've ever lived in an apartment, I'd bet you've had one too. But amidst all the clanging and...
- Mar 31, 2021
- 3 min
A Signpost Back To Now
Circumstances change, but the human experience doesn't. Rich, famous, poor, homeless. Addicted to drugs, obsessed with sports. Whatever...
- Mar 28, 2021
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It Never Ends
If you think about it, nothing really ever ends. The ups and the downs, the beauty and the destruction - it all continues to play out,...
- Mar 24, 2021
- 2 min
Coming Home
No matter what stage of life you're in, you're always free to come back home. Sometimes, the further you are away from home, the stronger...
- Mar 21, 2021
- 1 min
Home
Every day is new. Yet every day is the same. When will you realize it's not the world that must change? Every day you wake up, then go to...
- Mar 17, 2021
- 2 min
Perspective of the Cosmos
We often hear that perspective is everything. If this is true, then how do we tap into this so called perspective? What does the view...
- Mar 14, 2021
- 2 min
How To Meditate No Matter What You're Doing
When we hear the word meditation, we often think about a dimly lit room with a cushion and maybe a candle or two. We picture a zen corner...
- Mar 7, 2021
- 2 min
Will The Future Be That Different?
Ah, hope for the future. You know, that excitement you feel thinking about what's to come. The next job. The new house. The upcoming...
- Feb 24, 2021
- 3 min
When Thoughts Are Like Glue
If you think about it, your thoughts are like glue. So sticky in fact, you can't even get unstuck from them. You may even be at the point...
- Feb 21, 2021
- 2 min
When Life Opens A Road, Take It
Today was a nice day. After a brutal winter storm week in Texas, USA, consisting of days without without heat, power, and water, today...
- Feb 18, 2021
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Amidst the Storm
What to do, when there’s nothing to do? Where to look, when there’s nothing to see? What to listen to, when all you hear is silence? The...
- Feb 11, 2021
- 3 min
Handling The Discomforts Of Life
Sometimes life asks us to do things we're not comfortable with. Scratch that. Life always asks us to do things we're not comfortable...
- Feb 7, 2021
- 2 min
What Are We Chasing In Our Lives?
What is it that we truly want in life? Amidst the hustle and bustle of our chaotic schedules and frantic lives, what are we chasing? More...
- Jan 31, 2021
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It's Not Happening Until It's Happening
How often do you find yourself stressing about upcoming commitments, events that sometimes aren't until a few weeks, months, or even...
- Jan 28, 2021
- 3 min
What's Next, What's Next, What's Next?
Have you ever found yourself in a perpetual state of anxiously awaiting the next moment? You know, when you're in a rush, and you can't...
- Jan 24, 2021
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A Reminder On Stress
The essence of stress is that it comes from resistance to what is. Whether that be something unfolding in the outside world, or something...
- Jan 20, 2021
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Where Is Home, Anyway?
Home can be many things to people. For some, it's a house. For other's, it's another person. Of course, we all know that home, at its...
- Jan 17, 2021
- 2 min
We're All Doing The Same Thing, Just Differently
We're all doing the same thing. It just happens to look vastly different, depending on who we are. Regardless of how it looks on the...
- Jan 13, 2021
- 2 min
Two Worlds
We live in two worlds. There's the outside world we're all familiar with. That's the one we spend our lives trying to change, mold, and...
- Jan 11, 2021
- 3 min
The Ignorant Snowflake
We can learn a lot from nature. After all, we are part of it. And yet the general consensus seems to be that we are somehow separate....
- Jan 6, 2021
- 1 min
Now More Than Ever, Watch Your Ego
When tensions rise, emotions boil, and riots emerge, one thing is for certain: The ego is at play. Whether you're observing the chaos...
- Jan 3, 2021
- 2 min
Handling Dread
Dread is a difficult thing to experience. It's like we know what's coming, so we get all worked up over it before it happens. If you...
- Dec 30, 2020
- 3 min
Finding Peace At The Post Office
We've all been there. At some point in our lives, the time comes for us to make a trek over to our beloved post office, where we're...
- Dec 27, 2020
- 2 min
But How Are You, Now?
You‘re anxious. You’re depressed. You lack hope, and you’re scared for the future. But, while all of those conditions are taking over...
- Dec 23, 2020
- 2 min
Remember There's Only Now, Especially During This Holiday Season
Between times of difficulty, and perhaps during them as well, always remember that there's only this moment. Sure, last night might have...
- Dec 20, 2020
- 2 min
Like A Child
When a child comes into this world, she looks at her surroundings without naming anything. Just pure awareness, taking it all in. What if...
- Dec 16, 2020
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The Wondrous Spec That We Are
What if we approached everything in life by first remembering that we are living, conscious beings on a tiny spec in a vast universe?...
- Dec 14, 2020
- 2 min
It's Your World, No One Else's
You live in two worlds. One of them you share with everyone else. But I'm not talking about that one here. The other one, your own inner...
- Dec 9, 2020
- 3 min
Letting Go of Attachments
Finding where you're attached is easy. Letting go of that attachment is the hard part. In my life, I'm constantly noticing my...
- Dec 6, 2020
- 1 min
Dear Presence, Why Are You So Elusive?
Goodbye presence, Hello distraction. You're back so soon. I was hoping you'd give me a break, so I could spend time with presence. But...
- Dec 2, 2020
- 3 min
Catching It Early
The greatest chance you have at keeping internal peace is to catch the suffering when it arises. We all know it's hard, oftentimes...
- Nov 25, 2020
- 2 min
How Long Before You Let It Go?
Have you ever noticed that after something unpleasant happens, you tend to hold onto it throughout the day, week, or even month? It's...
- Nov 22, 2020
- 3 min
It's Always Something
Have you ever noticed how as soon as one problem goes away, the next one shows up? Like clockwork, problems seem to throw themselves at...
- Nov 8, 2020
- 2 min
What Just Happened?
Since the final call of the next American president, millions of people are now rejoicing around the world. Most of us take this for...
- Nov 1, 2020
- 3 min
Ease Up or Tense Up?
We take it for granted that life is about getting what we want. We spend all our time going after things, trying to shape the world...
- Oct 28, 2020
- 2 min
The Blank Canvas
As I sit here to write, as always, I start by looking at a blank canvas. And then I realize, wow, the blank canvas can be intimidating....
- Oct 25, 2020
- 3 min
What Do You Actually Know To Be True?
We know much less to be true than we think. But what does it mean to truly know something? Is merely reading it in a book enough?...
- Oct 21, 2020
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You're Wrong
If you think the problem is somewhere else, you're wrong. If you think you hate something, you're wrong. As hard as it might be to...
- Oct 18, 2020
- 3 min
Stop Rearranging The Outside World
If you think about it, all we really do in life is try to rearrange the outside world so that our inside world feels a certain way. The...
- Oct 11, 2020
- 2 min
Respecting Your Self
A big challenge our ego presents us with is its ability to second guess our decisions. We want to do something, and then someone else has...
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