As I’ve gotten older, I’ve discovered that all the things I’ve said “I Don’t Know” in response to – I actually did know. I’m not talking about knowing the answers to advanced physics or calculus theorems. I’m talking about knowing the answers to questions that pertain to the heart. You do know what you wantRead more
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True story: I had just read this poem (on today’s vlog) last week which was the basis of last week’s lesson about attempting to stop making so many assumptions in life. So I’m traveling back from Europe yesterday and I open up the American Airlines in-flight magazine – quite the page-turner, I know! But loRead more
When you assume you make an ass out of you and me. Why? Because assumptions aren’t based in fact. But we love to make them because they pull us out of the present moment and send us speeding into a projected future that distracts us from now. We’re so familiar with letting our mind runRead more
When we’re on the outside looking in, when we compare ourselves to others, when we listen to the glossy, photo-shopped stories the media feeds us about people who’ve “made it,” we often feel like there’s something wrong with us. We lack what other people have. I remember early on during my spiritual path when IRead more
Joseph Campbell said, “We are so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it’s all about.” For many of us, we’ve never been taught to identify with an inner journey; how to self explore. SoRead more
You gain thirty pounds. Your essential nature is the same. You get dumped. Your essential nature is the same. You turn 30. Your essential nature is the same. Your agent drops you. Your essential nature is the same. Your essential nature – who it is that we all are – transcends our age, social status,Read more
People often ask me, “Why do we have ego?” Well without it, you wouldn’t be able to know that there’s another part of you. Something grander. More brave. More joyous. The soulful part of you. Spirit. Infinite Intelligence. The Creative Matrix. Potential. Living in a world of duality, you can’t know something without having theRead more
The paradox of Schrödinger’s cat is indeed weird. It demonstrates that in a hypothetical experiment – in the world of the quantum – a live cat put in a box with radioactive decay that could possibly be released and therefore kill the cat, experiences two different wave forms superimposed on each other. In other words,Read more
Do you realize how powerful you are? How you can become actualized in your life in a way that empowers yourself and others? As you become more and more self-actualized (which is really self-empowerment) you move from a preponderance of insignificant upsets, distractions and nuisances in your life to greater accomplishments. You stop spending timeRead more
Sometimes you’re going to want to quit. It’s normal. People feel that way in all walks of life and in all pursuits; from artists to athletes; from mothers to media moguls. If you didn’t feel that way, I’d think you were maybe not normal. But often, in an artistic career path, we choose to quitRead more