Imaginary Slights

Have you ever sent an email invitation to someone and gotten no response? First, you assume they’re busy. Then you wonder if they’re okay. Depending on the circumstances you may begin to feel put off and slighted for their ‘rude’ behavior. How...

The Art of Living Well

Waiting until all our ‘ducks are in a row’ to really live life is a big mistake. By the time all those pre-conditions are fully satisfied, we’ll be so firmly rooted in the habit of waiting, that we won’t even know how to enjoy that fairy tale...

The Power of Gratitude

Developing the practice of looking for what’s right has an unimaginably positive effect on our lives. When we relate to the world from our ego, we look for what’s wrong. We judge people, situations and things in order to further define our identity by...

Loving Life

Loving life has little to do with what’s actually going on out there and everything to do with our attitude about what’s out there. Chasing and grasping for fulfillment keeps us perpetually running and never arriving. We could have everything we ever...

Be a Lover of Reality

Does being a lover of reality mean we don’t have opinions or preferences and can be taken advantage of without a fight? Does it mean we turn a blind eye to visible problems and injustices? Certainly not! It means we understand that we are responsible for...

Choose Trust

The most trying events are easier to handle when we approach them with a trusting attitude. Believing that life works ‘for us’ gives us more energy to handle whatever challenges life brings our way. Trusting that everything we encounter has some kind of...