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I recently reconnected with a distant relative, and he was very unhappy with his life.  He lamented to me, “How did I get here? This isn’t the way I planned for my life to be. What happened?” And while most people would assume that the answer lay in some major “fork in the road” decisionRead more

“Would any one of us undertake even a journey of a few hundred miles without knowing why, without having some purpose?  And yet, so many of us live, undertaking not a chance task, but the great Task of Life itself. . . and yet we ask not why.”  (J. J. Van Der Leeuw) Seems kindRead more

For it’s only when you’re lost, that you can be found. And I don’t mean someone else finds you….but rather YOU find you….you reignite your internal flame, you uncover your inner passions, your drive, your calling, your true self. For most of us, this rediscovery comes during or after a period of feeling adrift, lost, withRead more

“Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself.” (Erich Fromm) And not just once, but over and over again. Just as a snake sheds its skin in order to grow, so do we as humans need to reinvent ourselves, or rather rediscover more of our authentic self, from time to time. HaveRead more

You may have heard it said before that there are two distinct “I’s” in each of us.  There is the “I” that thinks, talks, acts….and then there is the “I” that is the Observer.  The Observer is the part of you that sees what you are doing, that hears what you’re going to say before youRead more

Dianne Eppler Adams, one of this blog’s readers, as well as an astrologer and author, brought up a fantastic point yesterday in her comment….we come into this world with some preprogrammed aspects to us.  If you doubt this, think of any 4-year-old child you’ve met and how they are already such a distinct person withRead more

Because everyone else is already taken. (Oscar Wilde) Most cultures encourage people to be like each other in many ways (not all ways)…and the American culture is certainly one of them.  Being a high school student in the US is probably one of the most challenging experiences in terms of figuring out who you areRead more

I’m sure you’ve heard of Eckhart Tolle’s books, one of which was included in Oprah’s Book Club a few years ago, with 3.5 million people reading it together and discussing it over the internet! And I’m sure you’ve heard of The Secret (book and DVD) that millions were talking about just a few years ago…. SoRead more

You’ve heard me mention “your inner knowing” and “your inner voice” before….an even better description is “your internal GPS”. This is your inner guidance system that never steers you wrong. The first important step in working with your inner GPS is to learn to recognize when it is guiding you (or speaking to you) vs.Read more