“Don’t just put in your time. That is not enough. You have to make great effort.”When the shine wears off the habits we’re trying to form, when we begin to merely show up rather than put in the hard work of consistent, effortful focus, we lose

Falling up into the second half of life

Dec 30th, 2020 3m 33s

“Normally a job, fortune, or reputation has to be lost, a death has to be suffered, a house has to be flooded, or a disease has to be endured.”Rohr is pointing out a clear pattern that one of the primary ways we are ushered into the second half

Blind people who can see, but don't

Dec 29th, 2020 3m 52s

“I don’t think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.”The quote speaks for itself, but the book it comes from is an allegory for the breakdown of society, which is fueled in large part

How we engage and work with others

Dec 28th, 2020 3m 30s

“Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.”Our meditation focus is often on the self, and that is no doubt where the work begins. But a

The Enneagram is a tool that awakens our compassion

Dec 27th, 2020 3m 25s

“The Enneagram is a tool that awakens our compassion for people just as they are, not the people we wish they would become so our lives would become easier.”Knowing my Enneagram number has deepened my self-awareness, and given me practical and

Where love is

Dec 26th, 2020 3m 46s

“In the morning he would sit down to work, finish his allotted task, then take the little lamp from the hook, put it on the table, get his book from the shelf, open it, and sit down to read. And the more he read, the more he understood, and the

Care of the soul

Dec 25th, 2020 3m 3s

“Care of the soul is a fundamentally different way of regarding daily life and the quest for happiness.”Recognizing the soul within us helps us connect the spiritual with the material, the ineffable with concrete striving for the bottom line, i

Resilience and strength comes from within

Dec 24th, 2020 3m 49s

"The most apparent thing that I noticed was how most of the people in this study derive their sense of identity and well-being from their immediate surroundings rather than from within themselves, and that’s why they broke down — just couldn’t

Don't argue with the Irrational Other

Dec 23rd, 2020 3m 44s

“With lovingkindness for myself I allow all the feelings of the irrational, perplexing, agonizing relationship to wash over me. Suddenly, I see it clearly: my whining, my sense that I’m trapped by this relationship, my seeming powerlessness ove

Hope is an axe you break down doors with

Dec 22nd, 2020 3m 46s

“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.”We explore hope as optimism, as necessity, as beacon shining a light forward. One thing it should not funct

Dependent on external validation

Dec 21st, 2020 3m

“What I know now is that when we derive our worth from the relationships in our lives — the intimate ones, the social circles we belong to, the companies we work for — we give away our power and become dependent upon external validation. When t

Being human is hard even if you're doing it right

Dec 20th, 2020 3m 47s

“Being human is not hard because you’re doing it wrong, it’s hard because you’re doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy.”The mindset that life i

Dealing with the inner struggle

Dec 19th, 2020 3m 21s

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”Sometimes our struggles transcend words, or our ability to articulate what is going on inside ourselves, whether or

Poverty is about a shortage of rights

Dec 18th, 2020 3m 44s

“The technocratic illusion is that poverty results from a shortage of expertise, whereas poverty is really about a shortage of rights. The emphasis on the problem of expertise makes the problem of rights worse. The technical problems of the poo

Start where you are

Dec 17th, 2020 3m 3s

“You can’t know where you’re going until you know where you are.”Pretend this book is a map, and you are looking at the point that says: You are here. That’s where you’re starting really all the time, from where you are. It doesn’t matter where

Our own unresolved issues

Dec 16th, 2020 2m 26s

“We are triggered not by their behavior, but by our own unresolved emotional issues.”“Do you see me?” This is the big question your child is asking every day. “Can you recognize me for who I am, different from your dreams and expectations for m

What you can control

Dec 15th, 2020 3m 50s

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”This book teaches the powerful and resonating lesson that our perceptions cre

You can't live without hope

Dec 14th, 2020 3m 33s

“Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante’s hell is the inscription: ’Leave behind all hope, you who enter here’.”There is a lot of

Trace things to their source

Dec 13th, 2020 3m 10s

“It is by tracing things to their origin, that we learn to understand them; and it is by keeping that line and that origin always in view, that we never forget them.”Paine had a provocative and idealistic sense of what we often should see as “s

Grief is conflicting feelings

Dec 12th, 2020 3m

“Grief is the conflicting feelings caused by the end of or change in a familiar pattern of behavior.”The emphasis is on feelings. Grief involves emotions, however intense the grief may be.Six common responses to loss that completely ignore emot

The process of meditation

Dec 11th, 2020 3m 33s

“With every breath, the old moment is lost; a new moment arrives. We exhale and we let go of the old moment. It is lost to us. In doing so, we let go of the person we used to be. We inhale and breathe in the moment that is becoming. In doing so

Addictive behavior is a search for safety

Dec 10th, 2020 3m 31s

“Addictive behavior is often a search for safety rather than an attempt to rebel or a selfish turn inward.”This is a good reminder, especially when we see it manifesting in our children’s behaviors. Of course, it doesn’t take long for addiction

Celebrate your differentness

Dec 9th, 2020 3m 7s

“If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it — through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you make to express yourself. Tell the

Human speech is a cracked kettle

Dec 8th, 2020 3m 41s

“Whereas the truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which

The physics of making a move

Dec 7th, 2020 2m 45s

“A stationary body will stay stationary unless an external force is applied to it.”Force is equal to mass times acceleration, and a change in motion (change in speed) is proportional to the force applied. For every action, there is an equal and