This Memorial Day my mind returns to a day many years ago now, on a flight into San Francisco. I surreptitiously noticed the young man sitting next to me in the midd...read full story
IF THE TRUTH HEALS, why is it so difficult for us to speak the truth? Why have we become a culture so afraid of the truth? Why are we so afraid of the very thing that wou...read full story
She was my first friend. We met when I was three years old and, although she was a year younger than me, she was the girl with whom I spent most of my childhood. We playe...read full story
ALTHOUGH ZEN MASTERS NEVER heard of the word meme, becoming aware of our memes—the embedded mental programs that shape our thinking—is the essence of the Zen discipline. ...read full story
We have so many worries. We worry about money, yet we know that money is only a tool, a means to an end. What we really want is happiness, a bit of security in our lives,...read full story
Why do I ask students in my Financial Freedom seminars to get in touch with their deepest and oldest feelings about money? It’s the best way to discover where our relatio...read full story
A few years ago, I watched an interview on television with a Vietnam veteran who’d been a fighter pilot. On one mission, he was shot down and captured by the Viet C...read full story
Like most people, I want the world to be a better place. I was a child in the 1960s and picked up on the sudden expansion of consciousness that happened then, along with ...read full story
Nothing is separate from anything else; the connective consciousness of life is everywhere. What we see and experience around us is the manifestation of an invisible crea...read full story
BETRAYAL IS A BREACH OF TRUST. What you counted on to be true is false. You were living a lie. When you’ve been betrayed by your beloved, spouse, or life partner, y...read full story
