To let it be or not to let it be? That is the question. In a prescient article titled “You Think You Lost Your Thought, Well I Saw Her Yesterday-ay” published on Tuesday, Emily Herzlin asked another wonderful question: if we have a creative idea...
I was planning to write a post today about holiday gift-giving and how we're all under so much pressure to buy presents that we forget what it's like to be generous. Except on Saturday I started to feel pain around my right eye. I...
Descartes had it wrong when he said “I think, therefore I am.”
Our thoughts are not what define us and make us who we are. They come and go like the wind and over time through practice we learn how they operate and how...
“Reality is always kinder than the stories we tell about it.” - Byron Katie
Can you imagine understanding, even loving, someone who belongs to a group of people responsible for killing your father, brother, or best friend? Can you...
"I had an incident in life where I lost my 4 year old daughter in a tragic accident at home. I didn't want to live anymore... I had to change my life. I didn't have a problem with drugs or nothing. I had a problem with thinking. My thinking was...
My thoughts are uglier than your thoughts. What is a thought? Why can’t I catch thoughts? What are thoughts made of? Why can’t I answer this question?
Today I asked my 8 and 9-year-old students where their thoughts came from? Here are the...
My concept of “I”, “me” and “mine” give me a false sense of comfort and security.
The degree to which I suffer is proportionate to how solid a sense of “me” I’m working with at any given...
"Before fighting the Mafia you must first examine your own conscience, and then, after you have defeated the Mafia inside yourself, you can fight the Mafia that's in your circle of friends. We ourselves and our mistaken way of...
That was the question posed, in large block lettering, on a flyer I used to see taped to streetlamp poles and phonebooths all around New York City, advertising some type of mind-control therapy. As a meditator I've frequently wrestled with an...
