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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What the Earth really needs

Yes – the Earth needs us to drive less. The Earth needs less deforestation, species extinction, soil erosion… the list goes on. But what the Earth really needs is for us humans to get on the same page about who we are, what is the good life, and how we move forward into our shared […]

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