Category Archives: Radiance

No Mud, No Lotus

A few years ago, the Vietnamese Buddhist teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, published a slim volume called, No Mud, No Lotus. The premise is straightforward: the “mud” of suffering is essential to happiness. The two are inextricably linked. To find happiness, first embrace your pain, look deeply into it, and learn to “suffer well.” Last week, […]

March 4, 2020 – 1:38 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Consciousness, Radiance, Self-Knowledge | Comments (0)

Moving Toward Wholeness

Not long ago my friend, Ed Batista tweeted that he felt inspired by how I had connected leadership to psychological wholeness in a recent post. That was very kind, and it also planted a seed. I’ve written before about what I think wholeness is for leaders, but looking back to that 2011 post, I was […]

June 29, 2017 – 4:14 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Consciousness, Fate and Destiny, Radiance, Self-Knowledge, Shadow, Wounds | Comments (4)

On Worthiness

In many ways, worthiness is the very first and the very last topic of leadership. From the start a leader is someone who is concerned with knowing and relying upon his or her self-value. Without it the person who wants to lead, to create change, to bring people together around a new idea or movement […]

May 29, 2016 – 2:18 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Angels, Beyond the Edge, Openness, Radiance, Transformation | Comments (7)

The Horse

I stopped along a country road to take a photograph. I had been down by the river under the mountain, but the shadows had grown longer and now on my way home the mountain was immersed in late afternoon light. At first, two horses galloped to see me, but they soon wandered off, distracted by […]

May 27, 2015 – 6:32 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Healing, Openness, Power, Radiance, Trust | Comments (2)