Category: Truth

Love, Truth and Thinking for Yourself

The polit­i­cal scene in the Unit­ed States is so deeply frus­trat­ing. We are polar­ized, embat­tled, insult­ed and insult­ing, tired of fear but still feel­ing it — often as a kind of mid­night despair and pow­er­less­ness. What the hell hap­pened? Now we are so eas­i­ly out­raged, con­temp­tu­ous and seem­ing­ly des­per­ate for rad­i­cal change that means our… Con­tin­ue read­ing Love, Truth and Think­ing for Yourself

On Fairy Tales

Often we can see some­one else — a friend, per­haps — liv­ing out their untrue sto­ry, and we want to help. The oth­er per­son says some­thing like… “I’m an out­sider — that’s just my nature!” — a sto­ry of feel­ing sep­a­rate “What­ev­er room I’m in, I’m the smartest one there!” — also a sto­ry of feel­ing… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Fairy Tales

On Cosmology

We are all con­nect­ed to mys­tery through our inner worlds. Each of us pos­sess­es that sub­jec­tive inte­ri­or win­dow. The ques­tion is what we have cho­sen to do with the mys­tery we find there. Reli­gions most­ly attempt to reframe it into an adapt­able cos­mol­o­gy con­vinc­ing enough to spread viral­ly, becom­ing a shared real­i­ty and belief sys­tem,… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Cos­mol­o­gy

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The Problem is Owning the Problem

A friend and col­league once artic­u­lat­ed to me her three biggest con­sid­er­a­tions in decid­ing whether or not some­one should be ter­mi­nat­ed. • First, did the per­son receive ade­quate feed­back? • Sec­ond, did the per­son tru­ly own the feed­back and take respon­si­bil­i­ty for the prob­lem? • Third, did behav­ior change actu­al­ly occur?  In effect, my friend said,… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Prob­lem is Own­ing the Problem