#304 – How will wanting make you suffer?The feeling of want is energizing, motivating, inspiring at first––"I want to build a house in Portugal, with an edible garden, and power everything with solar energy."It makes me joyful, excited with the poten...
#303 – Who talks in always/never terms?Nuance requires the capacity to handle uncertainty with grace. But for the part of your mind for which uncertainty equals danger, nuance is an obstacle to safety.That part is your Ego. It's the voice in your hea...
#302 – What do you stand to gain when you're angry?When you feel that someone (or the world) has wronged you, you feel right––and righteous. Anger may then come to the rescue, to fuel, motivate, and give you the energy to defend yourself.This mo...
#301 – Why are your Ghosts in cahoots with the outside world?When you're able to see a tree and think "just tree," you'll be free. Your Ghosts, unemployed, will be lazily filing their nails and yawning at an empty wall.Years ago, I helped a researche...
#300 – What makes you give up your inner peace?Whenever we allow external circumstances to bother us, we're making a choice. But we do it because we feel we don't have a choice––how could I be happy when my son's in jail?Yesterday, we were again...
#299 – What can be hiding behind high productivity?I learned a new term today: "high-functioning depression." It's the sort of depression that hides behind a highly productive, often successful, and always full life.Listening to a psychiatrist discus...
#298 – How does the Ego cover up its fear?The Ego fears two things: not knowing, and knowing it's wrong.When it doesn't know, it floods you with second-guessing, flip-flopping, brain fog, or endless polling. Anything to prevent you from trusting...
#297 – What's cozy about keeping an enemy list?Clinging to our grudges seems to put us in a position of power. If I'm the one holding the grudge, I am the one shunning you from "my land," and therefore, I have some power over you. I limit you and, by...
#296 – What part of you resists being "on hold?"Waiting for something to happen––a process to end, your phone to ring, a lab result to arrive––can feel like torture. The uncertainty is unnerving: will it happen? When? What will be the outcome? A...
#295 – Is your mind a true democracy?I don't know of anyone, personally, who doesn't believe democracy is the most beneficial form of governance.But I know many people (myself included, if I'm not vigilant) who allow their minds to be governed like a...