#535 – How can you maintain hope in times of distress?When all we see in the news and our social media feeds is violence and fear, it's easy to fall into the trap of believing that violence and fear is all there is.When we fear for our integrity...
#534 – When has fear cast out fear?"Perfect love casts out fear." 1 John 4:18 ICE agents killed again in Minneapolis. Part of the country is terrorizing their brothers and sisters because they're afraid, and their fear makes them hatef...
#533 – What will you gain by punishing those who "wronged" you?Whenever I feel "wronged," I have dreams of vengeance. I know my Ego and its entourage of servile Ghosts are causing them, but I fall for them.This morning, I was doing a set of split squ...
#523 – How can you ensure your life unfolds the way you want?The answer is rationally obvious: you can't. But the way most of us "do life" indicates we're sure we can. We clench our fists and stomp our feet when things don't go the way we want, as th...
#531 – What would make you choose power over collaboration?Fear––which is to say, your Ego.Your Ego wants simplicity, certainty, control. Mine does too––it's Ego's nature. But collaboration is messy, complex, and sometimes, more miss than hit.Yo...
#530 – What true progress is your Ego making you dismiss?What happens between nothingness and the full-blown existence of something is progress. I used to dismiss the intermediate steps between 0 and 1, thinking they didn't mean anything. For me, onl...
#529 – Where are your violence thoughts coming from?Panic. That's what the media flood our minds with. People attacking people. Panicked people defending themselves. More attacks. More fear.Violence feels inescapable. But is it?For the Ego, it is. Be...
#528 – Where is your hope coming from?Hope can be a wide, warm light guiding your life, or it can be a flimsy straw you're clinging to, to avoid the pain of uncertainty.When, time and time again last year, I saw none of my "hopes" become a reality, I...
#527 – How can you avoid happiness?Happiness is inevitable, but you can stop it, if you know how.When happiness comes knocking, following these three simple steps will revert you to your preferred state of misery.STEP ONEIn your head, you may have no...
#526 – What's happening to your life while you wait?If, according to poet Dorothy Hunt, "Peace is this moment without judgment," to me, waiting feels like the opposite: I judge that things are not what they should be, and I'm not at peace.I could kee...