“I just want to fuckin die.” Coming from the mouth of a 12-year old, this is a devastating thing to hear. It is something that we might expect from someone a...

Being an entrepreneur sounds like a lot of fun. You get to set your schedule. You get to do what you love. You get to decide how much you want to get paid. H...

“The Lord of Animals or the Releaser of Animals, in the time before time, crossed the line from the animals’ side of things to the human side, and back. Tal...

…it moves all by itself. There is an obsession with doing in our culture. One that gets under the skin of most people, and demands that they occupy every wa...

Last weekend I had the powerful experience of attending a grief ritual led by Francis Weller. It was an experience that has moved me in many ways. Many of...

Sometimes shit just doesn’t work out. It’s the way it is. You try and try and try, and the bottom just drops out from beneath you. This is how a conversati...

"The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.” - Robin S. Sharma The first time I heard a berimbau chills ran through me from head to toe. A sens...

Have you ever felt like the world is collapsing around you? Like nothing you do can stop the onslaught of fear, sorrow, or desperation that floods your mind...

You have the power to change the world. It won’t be a fast change. No overnight discovery of the solution to all of our problems. No instant awakening tha...

In his book The Soul’s Code James Hillman offers an interesting perspective on what determines the course of our life. He says that when we are born into th...

I’ve loved Star Wars since I was a kid. When I was little I used to ask my mom to change my name to Luke, to which she’d quickly reply “Luke no es nombre me...

"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough." - Meister Eckhart Our culture is a taking culture. It is based on the...

Sometimes the road ahead of us gets dark. The dreams we had of what life would be when we were young start to dim, and we come face to face with the reality...

There is an inherent speed to things. We see it when we observe the rhythms of the natural world. When we step into a meadow and see the breeze moving thro...

Sometimes the right thing is letting go. There are times in our lives when the illusions we have created of how it all should be no longer serve us. They a...

The cell was cold. It was summer in the Chihuahuan Desert, and yet this tiny cinderblock room in the middle of the Doña Ana County Detention Center was free...

One of the things that I’ve noticed over the course of my work is that men are afraid of stepping out of conventional ideas of strength and into the fire of ...

It is difficult letting go of relationships. Sometimes we realize that the path we have shared with someone no longer serves us, or the person we are with. ...

This question came up through a conversation with a friend of mine. He shared an article with me that talks about the dangers of meditation from the perspec...