I’ve come to believe that the secret to peace, to authentic happiness and fulfillment is to live as much as possible in the space between. The space between sentences, between thoughts, between doing this and doing that. The space between before and after, between here and there, feeling and thought, thought and action. The secret, […]
The truth is that very little of it really matters. In the end, it doesn’t matter whether it’s labeled a failure or success. It doesn’t matter if they turned out to be trustworthy or they burned you the minute your back was turned. It doesn’t even matter what you managed to hold on to versus […]
I can’t offer you a promise, and I can’t offer you direction – but this doesn’t mean that I am lost. It just means that everything changes, and that includes you and I. It means that, to promise anything, or to draw any kind of path, is to step outside of truth. It is to […]
The spirit of the forest speaks in her own special language – a language that the natural world is fluent in, but that many humans seem to have forgotten. In this unique tongue, she whispers a secret that’s so powerful it guides all the creatures of the earth as they turn along the great cycle […]
New Year’s eve is upon us. In many ways, it’s a day like any other. It is another stitch in the fabric of our lives. What makes today so significant isn’t that number on the calendar. It’s the way that it makes us stop and think, the way it reminds us to look up from […]
This day – this very moment, in fact – is a still, deep body of water that stretches out before us. It’s an endless expanse of potential within which a single splash could ripple forever outwards, touching countless lives as it travels. Yesterday and tomorrow are nothing more than reflections across the surface of this water. […]
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