Category: Love

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

Do It Now

Ear­li­er this week my wife and I learned that a good friend of ours had died of can­cer. Although we’d known for a few months that she was ill, it was still a shock, as death always is.  She’d been in chemo for awhile, and an addi­tion­al prob­lem had recent­ly shown up in her back.… Con­tin­ue read­ing Do It Now

Soul-Making

Soul can be a dif­fi­cult word when it is asso­ci­at­ed with a work­place. Work and busi­ness are the domain of mea­sure­ment and man­age­ment, of pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, log­ic, struc­ture, sys­tems, strate­gies and align­ments. Often these are things that have lit­tle obvi­ous con­nec­tion to the deep­er sto­ries of the peo­ple with­in the sys­tems. Those hid­den sto­ries may con­tain… Con­tin­ue read­ing Soul-Mak­ing

An Old, Universal Idea

Get­ting out of our own way is the biggest chal­lenge. Whether we strug­gle with hubris or shame (or some of each), the chal­lenge is wak­ing up to what tran­scends our per­son­al beliefs and mind­sets, our col­lec­tive con­di­tion­ing, our inner and out­er cul­tures that like mist on a win­dow obscure our view of what’s real. Putting… Con­tin­ue read­ing An Old, Uni­ver­sal Idea

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