“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 e...

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...

“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 ...

…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 ...

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 ...

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...

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

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 i...

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...

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 “...

"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....

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 f...

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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 long...

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 Deten...

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 a...

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

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