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  • 2025
    • Sep 30, 2025 Doing Nothing
    • Sep 30, 2025 The Beauty of an Ordinary Life
    • Sep 30, 2025 A Morning Ritual
    • Sep 30, 2025 Dusk
    • Sep 30, 2025 Simplicity
    • Sep 30, 2025 Constraints
    • Sep 15, 2025 No Mud, No Lotus
  • 2015
    • Oct 29, 2015 The Metrics of Worth
    • Sep 2, 2015 The Necessity of Beauty
    • May 14, 2015 Of Humility and Hubris
    • May 6, 2015 The Joy of Subsistence Living
    • Apr 30, 2015 The Art of Artless Self-Expression
    • Apr 26, 2015 Untangling Our Hearts
    • Apr 16, 2015 Understanding Empathy
    • Apr 8, 2015 What Does it Mean to Forgive?
    • Apr 1, 2015 Living an Over-Produced Life?
    • Mar 28, 2015 The Power of Useless Pursuits
    • Mar 24, 2015 Intrinsic Worth
    • Mar 18, 2015 From Mindless Consumption to Culture Making
    • Mar 6, 2015 Georgia, Georgia ...
  • 2014
    • Dec 6, 2014 Finding Your Peace
    • Aug 21, 2014 Leaping in the Dark
    • Jul 27, 2014 Being Known
    • Jul 16, 2014 Living Your Way to a Brand-New Ending
    • Jul 7, 2014 Calling All Inspiration/Advice Junkies.
    • Jun 30, 2014 Loving Me. Loving You.
    • Jun 26, 2014 Pick Yourself - The paradox of service.
    • Jun 23, 2014 The World isn't Just One Way
    • Jun 8, 2014 Loving Others. Loving Ourselves.
    • May 26, 2014 The Art of Self-Preservation
    • May 18, 2014 Living On the Edge with Love and Respect
    • May 2, 2014 Forging Our Own Path
    • Apr 20, 2014 On Surviving Personal Storms
    • Apr 16, 2014 Respect for Dark Places
    • Apr 12, 2014 Owner of a Broken Heart?
    • Apr 2, 2014 Summoning Wisdom
    • Mar 29, 2014 Mental and Emotional Renewal
    • Mar 19, 2014 Still Worshiping at the Altar of Control?
    • Mar 16, 2014 Why Experiencing Failure Doesn't Mean YOU are a failure ...
    • Mar 12, 2014 Living the Life You Are Capable of Living
    • Mar 2, 2014 Feeling Stuck? - How to locate useful answers by means of asking thoughtful questions.
    • Feb 18, 2014 Unfolding Our Myth - Coming to know and trust our own deep sources of knowledge.
    • Feb 15, 2014 Change and the Challenge of Relationship
    • Feb 8, 2014 Scrutinizing the season of petal pink haze.
    • Jan 28, 2014 Being is a beautiful thing ...
    • Jan 23, 2014 Holding Things Lightly - The essential spiritual practice of creating space, breathing room.
    • Jan 19, 2014 Spiritual Ambition - on being vs. doing.
    • Jan 10, 2014 How 'Smart' are Your Heart and Mind?
  • 2013
    • Dec 31, 2013 What to do? Our One Wild and Precious Life.
    • Dec 27, 2013 Confidence Doesn't Make You Sexy ... Wha?!
    • Dec 16, 2013 Personal Sovereignty - The discovery that your own heart lights the way.
    • Dec 10, 2013 Kintsukuroi - The gentle art of soul restoration.
    • Nov 30, 2013 There is Nothing to Fix - Beware the perils of spiritual and psychological idealism.
    • Nov 21, 2013 Soul Growth - It's not about money and fame. So, what is it about? Why is it important?
    • Nov 14, 2013 "Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Nov 8, 2013 What does it really mean to live our truth? It means frisking ourselves for bullsh*t.
    • Oct 30, 2013 Who You Are is Enough
    • Oct 24, 2013 3 Ridiculously Simple Steps to Success
    • Oct 19, 2013 Of Too Busy Lives, Social Dis-ease and Learning to say "No. Enough. I'm not doing this anymore!" My vote for a saner way of life.
    • Aug 9, 2013 Staying in Relationship with Life - Learning to Relax in the Face of Paradox
    • Aug 6, 2013 Tiny Buddha Article - Loving Others Without Expecting Them to Fill a Void
    • Jul 12, 2013 Humility - The Art of Owning Who We Are
    • Jul 6, 2013 Letting Go, Letting Be and the Liberated Life
    • Jun 28, 2013 Negative Capability - On the Counter-Intuitive Art of Embracing Our Contradictions
    • Jun 23, 2013 Sartre On Love
    • Jun 20, 2013 Cutting the Crap - Living in Truth
    • May 28, 2013 The Genius in Our Flaws - An Essential Part of Our Personal Signature
    • May 22, 2013 Make No Mistake About It - Being is a Radical Act.
    • May 18, 2013 "Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy." - Milan Kundera
    • Apr 18, 2013 Being a Better Failure - Becoming Human
    • Apr 13, 2013 Sensual AND Spiritual
    • Apr 5, 2013 The Beauty of An Asymmetrical Life
    • Apr 1, 2013 Can't Get No Satisfaction?
    • Mar 26, 2013 The Gritty Side of Truth
    • Mar 21, 2013 The Art of Deep Listening
    • Mar 17, 2013 Your Vulnerability is a Treasure
    • Mar 14, 2013 Flow Baby Flow!
    • Mar 9, 2013 Wake-Up Calls - Values Clarification Time
    • Mar 8, 2013 The Certainty That There is No Certainty
    • Feb 24, 2013 Rock the Cosmic Rhythms of Your Heart
    • Feb 14, 2013 Love's Fallible Gods
    • Feb 6, 2013 Love's Intelligence
    • Feb 1, 2013 The Sane Way to Forgiveness
    • Jan 21, 2013 Emotional Generosity
    • Jan 13, 2013 Pernicious Hypocrisy
    • Jan 8, 2013 Loving Your Life - Your Presence is Required
    • Jan 1, 2013 A New Year - Proceeding into the Gorgeously Obscure
  • 2012
    • Dec 23, 2012 The Wisdom of Play
    • Dec 18, 2012 The Passionate Life - Taking the Red Pill
    • Dec 12, 2012 Girl On Fire
    • Dec 3, 2012 The Messy, Uncertain, Beautiful Business of Life
    • Nov 23, 2012 Making Love a Priority
    • Nov 18, 2012 Life in Death's Wake - Lessons On Living Well
    • Nov 4, 2012 Breast Cancer Story - The End
    • Nov 2, 2012 Breast Cancer Story Cont'd
    • Oct 25, 2012 A Breast Cancer Story
    • Oct 16, 2012 Alturism and Ayn Rand
    • Oct 11, 2012 What is Your Relationship to the Present Moment?
    • Oct 4, 2012 Getting Off Gaia's Back - A Rant!
    • Sep 21, 2012 Abolish Vicarious Living Now
    • Sep 15, 2012 Savouring the Minutiae
    • Sep 10, 2012 Ultimate Question II - Why Are We Here?
    • Sep 7, 2012 Ultimate Question - Who am I?
    • Sep 2, 2012 Meeting the Needs of Others
    • Aug 28, 2012 Meeting Our Needs
    • Aug 25, 2012 The Pleasure Guru Speaks
    • Aug 23, 2012 End Your Suffering Now
    • Aug 20, 2012 How to Be Deeply Happy
    • Aug 17, 2012 My Personal Credo
    • Aug 13, 2012 The True Nature of Generosity
    • Aug 11, 2012 Writing and the Art of Emotional Liberation
    • Aug 3, 2012 The Art of Doing Nothing
    • Aug 1, 2012 A Modern Pilgrimage
    • Feb 10, 2012 Change It or Change Your Attitude
    • Jan 29, 2012 In Praise of the Useless Life
    • Jan 22, 2012 The Power of Belief
    • Jan 18, 2012 Humility and Shame - A Distinction
    • Jan 15, 2012 Partnered or Single?
    • Jan 10, 2012 Question Everything. Be More Curious.
    • Jan 5, 2012 The Wisdom of Our Feelings
  • 2011
    • Dec 10, 2011 Solstice
    • Dec 1, 2011 Life, Soul and Social Architecture
    • Nov 25, 2011 Morning Chai
    • Nov 19, 2011 Anger Burns It All Clean
    • Nov 15, 2011 Look Around - It's All Sacred
    • Nov 4, 2011 Doing No Harm
    • Oct 23, 2011 Beauty of a Wilting Flower - A Mid-Life Chronicle
    • Oct 16, 2011 Empathy, Understanding and World Peace
    • Oct 12, 2011 Communitas - Love and Be Loved
    • Oct 1, 2011 Defining Success For Yourself
    • Sep 18, 2011 Well-Adjusted to a Profoundly Sick Society?
    • Sep 10, 2011 Voting with Our Behaviour
    • Sep 7, 2011 The Wisdom of Humour
    • Sep 5, 2011 Tips For Navigating the Dark Side of Life
    • Sep 1, 2011 The Ideology of a Butterfly?
    • Aug 30, 2011 Incubation and the Art of Problem Solving
    • Aug 24, 2011 Reading, Writing and Truth Speaking
    • Aug 20, 2011 A Gentle Plea for Chaos
    • Aug 16, 2011 Slowing the Tempo
    • Aug 13, 2011 Breathing Space
    • Aug 8, 2011 Passion and the Poetic Life
    • Jul 10, 2011 Knowing Who You Are and What You Want
    • Jul 7, 2011 The Muddy Water of Ambiguity
    • Jun 24, 2011 The Happiness Conundrum
    • Jun 14, 2011 A Greater Sense of Ease
    • Jun 11, 2011 A Place for Pleasure
    • Jun 2, 2011 The Art of Letting Go
    • May 29, 2011 Paradox is Life in Motion
    • May 25, 2011 The Core of Meditation
    • May 21, 2011 Integrity
    • May 8, 2011 Wabi Sabi
    • May 2, 2011 Minimalist by Nature

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