#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...
#525 – What do your Ego and the Ghosts distract you from?We seem to live in a distracted state. We scroll our feeds, listen to podcasts, do mindless tasks, go to meetings (where we scroll our feeds...). What would happen if we faced ourselves?Today,...
#524 – What happens when you block your True Self's expression?In times of political polarization, many creators (including me) may hesitate to take a stance––because, what if they (we) offend someone who feels differently?Of course, that's just...
#523 – Why does your Ego want you to doubt yourself?"Better safe than sorry" is the Ego's best descriptor. Whenever success, growth, and self-realization require taking a risk, your Ego will try to convince you not to. It'll tell you that you'd...
#522 – What dreams did your Ego steal from you?Financial institutions know it: "Past performance is not a guarantee of future results." And we all know it when it comes to money: anything can happen and send the markets crashing––or rallying.Why...
#521 – What untruths does your Ego push you to cling to?For the Ego, clinging to injustice, blaming, and victimization are a way of life. For you, they're the death of your consciousness.On January 7, the blatant lies about the video of the ICE...
#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...