Speaking True: Guns, Tomahawks, and Tatas

Speaking True: Guns, Tomahawks, and Tatas

A subject that comes up all the time professionally and in my personal encounters in the world is the value proposition. Now, if you're not familiar with that term, it's a marketing term that talks about giving people what they need and want and finding a way to connect their needs, their wants, and what you're trying to give them

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Realizing Well-being and Joy

Realizing Well-being and Joy

A central principle for me is to tell the truth about myself to myself. Sometimes I have to tell those truths to you so I can remember. Thirty years ago, a teacher gently began to show me that "the kingdom of heaven is within you." Through all this time, lesson after lesson, we have sought to explore and let go of the countless ways that my utterly human self gets in the way of that realization.

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Aren't We All Self-Centered?

Aren't We All Self-Centered?

To put it as a simple question: Do any of us ever do anything that does not somehow align to our own perceived self-interests? And to add the follow up questions: Could it be that it really is nothing more than having awareness of those self-interests, and not fooling ourselves into thinking we are virtuous?

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