Gifts and Spirit

Gifts and Spirit

it is clear that we are not in charge of ourselves or our lives in the ways we would like to believe. We humans are actually like a monkey sitting atop an unconscious tiger racing through the jungle of reality. At every point, the monkey (you or me) is telling itself over and over and over again that we are in charge.

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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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