Situate yourself in deep time

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle, or you can live as if everything is a miracle. ~Albert Einstein Every culture has its creation story. Ours is the big bang. And it’s an amazing story, full of poetry and wonder. Out of nothingness, the Universe dreamed itself […]

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Live the questions

“…have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point […]

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The ecology of change agency

I define positive change agents as people who are committed to: making the world a better place than they found it (or improving the conditions in which others live) and making themselves better people. Both are necessary. Neither is sufficient by itself. (Personal development without care and compassion is only inwardly focused: a form of […]

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I’m already dead

I’ve had a powerful meditation lately that I’ve been trying out. I imagine that the Universe has millions of years before me and millions of years after me, and that life is short. Not too hard for me to do. And I sink into the finality of my death. In these moments my death is […]

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