#520 – Where do you go for refuge when life feels unbearable?In the Buddhist tradition, only three refuges provide true liberation from suffering:Buddha––awareness, presenceDharma––truthSangha––love, spiritual communityIn modern life, though, wh...
#519 – How do your meticulous plans for the future pay off?"I place the future in the hands of God." – A Course In Miracles, lesson 194When you think you're in charge of the future, every decision you make requires an exhaustive audit of the potentia...
#518 – How does your Ego paralyze you?Fear is the Ego showing up. Sometimes, the Ego is right to be afraid: if a car is about to hit you or the riptide pulls you in. But mainly, making you afraid is what the Ego does because it thinks fear is going t...
#517 – What makes you choose problem over peace?What if, where I see a problem, it's just life unfolding? In other words, am I "problemizing" life?Earlier in my Milwaukee house and job hunting, I'd noticed that whenever things got too easy, I gr...
#516 – What part of aloneness scares you the most?The reason we avoid engaging in what really matters is that, to do it, we need to be alone with our own mind, and to be okay with what we might find in there.For the past few days, I've been frantical...
#515 – What do you need to know in order to feel safe?We believe that knowing will save us from disaster. It won't. What happens is that the illusion of knowing saves us from the anxiety of uncertainty.I'm tired of that. Of thinking I know when...
#514 – What do you bring into the new year?People say that what you do New Year's Day sets the tone for the entire year. Of course, being me, I thought it was all about "doing." So yesterday, the last day of the last year, I thought about when,...
#513 — What do you wish for the new year?How do you want to enter the new year?This morning, at the end of the first Yoga With Adriene session I’ve done since April, as my shoulders were trembling in an impossible pose, the thought “I feel empty” cam...
#512 – What promises to yourself are worth keeping?As the clock hits 00:01 on January 1st, all those New Year's resolutions you might have felt strongly about in November will start to feel distant, like a dream you had long ago.The Ghosts of Not Fol...
#511 – How does love help you forgive––and the other way around?You've probably heard this: one thing is to forgive the person and another is to forgive their harmful behavior. You can forgive the person while condemning their actions. But how?I...