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Howard Thurman, the civil rights activist once famously said "don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive and go and do that, because the world needs more of us who have come alive."

If you ever partied too hard in college, stressed a bunch, ate badly, and scraped through final exams, only to come home for break, completely flake out and sleep for a week while your mom coddled you back to health...

Headed up to the mountains about a month ago for one last lap of spring skiing, and had an "unstuck in time" kinda moment.

As many of you may have been following, the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem was the site of the most recent tensions in the Arab-Israeli conflict––that are now escalating to concerning levels.

In many ways, we're all Cosmic Orphans––thrust into this mixed up, muddled up, shook up world, with barely a say in the matter. Homesick for a place we've never seen, but still, somehow, remember.

Happy Passover, Easter, Equinox and all things Vernal! It's the time of year for celebrating what was once given up for dead, now sprouting with renewed life. We've been at this little song and dance for thousands of years now, east and west

Today we’re going to riff on dying. And since we only get one shot at that in our lives... we’re going to talk about a little known discipline: Death practices.

What is it about so-called "spiritual" paths these days that leaves so many people uptight and unhappy?

I realized something painfully obvious––that vague "6-9 months" of drift I'd placed wasn't right––it was a very specific 12 months, and it's been happening to all of us, slowly, insidiously, so incremental that it's really hard to note exactly how it has invaded and corrupted our minds and hearts.

Just had a killer exchange with Dr. Matt Johnson that I wanted to share as it's super germane to what's going on more broadly in the therapeutic space.

"What makes this hope radical," he explains, "is that it is directed toward a future goodness that transcends our current ability to understand what it is."

Time (or Chronos) has been getting thicker and thicker. And that's causing as much or even more of our grief.