Happiness, Failure, and Grace
As Peter Drucker indicates, happiness, like money, comes when the system is working. You don’t aim for the money and you don’t aim for happiness, you aim to make the system work.
The Veil of Sanity
I believe happiness and success are dispensable accessories to spiritual balance. You don't need either, and their pursuit is a distraction.
Thinking, Time, and Identity
Many things come naturally to us, but thinking is not one of them. There are many forms of thinking. We are primarily taught only two: linear and emotional.
Creativity and Corporation
The creative process is something unto itself and, like love or excitement, it does not aim for resolution... Real creation is, at some level, self-creation and the tragedy of an idea’s failure is a personal one.
Healthy Business, Healthy Mind
If your actions are motivated by gratitude, honesty, and a desire to be of service then you probably won’t perpetrate aggression on others.
An Unusual Awareness
I’m feeling the panic, I have a situation, I have a resolution, but I don’t have a conclusion, and I’ve run out of time. Here is what I do in my hypnopompic state: I begin by sitting with it and then I go beyond that.
Doing One’s Business
Human beings are pathological in the literal sense: personal logic is always distorted. But peoples’ logic is more distorted when they act in groups.
Becoming Lucid
How do you get what you don’t have? The question of how you become more aware from a less aware state requires something that you do not yet have. This is a healthy spiritual exercise.
A Call for Ideas
The critical idea behind deep nature connection is not nature, it’s connection. Nature is the mirror because nature holds the chaos of the interaction of relevant things.
Teaching, Learning, Healing
I draw a parallel between education and health. I believe teaching oneself and healing oneself are skills that enable one another.
Teaching What Teachers Can’t
With caution against excessive immersion, action video games can help us learn, focus, and multitask.
Cultivating Mind-Body Health
Health is not what you have in life, it's what you do with life.