Retirement is an amusing delusion that can be both dangerous and rewarding. After all, what can we really retire from? Certainly not anything that’s essential, anything we cannot live without. Like bringing all the love we can to here and now. Like managing fear. Like allowing our experience to teach us. Like aligning commitments […]
For a long time I’ve been struck by how the word “smart” and any of its many synonyms is considered such a revered accolade. What can you call someone other than maybe saint that connotes a quality as desirable? Yet, I find so widely true Thoreau’s observation: the mass of men lead lives of quiet
It sounds funny, but among the keys to true happiness is despair. By despair I mean experiencing deeply the pain of choices we make that are harmful to ourselves and others. Choices of belief. Choices of rationalization. Choices of denial. Choices of judgment. Any choice of us and them. When we touch the core disharmony
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