Living from the INSIDE OUT
Since I cut loose and ran off to the Arizona desert in March I’ve been on a roll. All the heaviness of 80-hour weeks prepping for a book launch that fell flat—all the horrible self-judgment and feelings of failure because I didn’t sell 5,000 copies in the first month...
Seeking safety
Devotion means you have seen the limitations of who you are and you have seen the boundlessness of what life is. ~ Sadhguru I want safety. Security. I’m 65 and damn well feel like I need these companions more than ever. And yet safety and security have rarely...
YOU are the message
So, I’m sitting in PF Chang’s at the Sherman Oaks Galleria in LA with my friend Robert Rabbin having lunch last week. Robert is like no one I’ve ever met before. I could use normal descriptors and say he’s “really real” or “genuinely genuine” or “incredibly...
Turned on All the Time
We’re supposed to be “ON” all the time. Right? On at work. On at home. On in bed. Where the hell did that expectation come from anyway? Even a freaking light bulb burns out and needs to be changed occasionally. Maybe this is pure projection on my part, but it seems...
Road Trip!!
I don’t know what it is about the words ROAD TRIP … but it sure gets the juices flowing—even when it would seem there’s no juice left. Frankly at the moment I feel a lot like one of those pithy green limes that keep showing up in the grocery stores nowadays. You know...
Lions and tigers and chemtrails … oh my
So I was on a radio show the other day, talking about (what else?) The E Word, the ego, evolution, and enlightenment. Thankfully I never get tired of sharing this information with people. It’s new every time. Plus every show host brings her or his unique perspective...
Now the real work begins
Okay. He's president. Now the real work starts. But first there needs to be some healing. One of the best ways to defuse the pain of this particular POTUS change is to recognize how much of ourselves we invest in political figures. It wasn't Donald Trump or Hilary or...
MORALITY vs CONSCIOUSNESS – clinging to the past or letting go?
I was reading More Than a Life, the biography of the Indian mystic and global humanitarian Sadhguru this morning, and was stopped cold by a quote from the man I call my guru: “You don’t need a moral structure when you have consciousness.” It didn’t stop me because it...
Healing Seeking Sickness
When the accepted truths of religion and society fail to satisfy the hunger inside for truth, there’s nothing else to do but seek alternatives. And therein lies one of the primary problems with spiritual seeking. After leaving one system of thought, it’s just human...
The Deepest Yearning
We may need the survival basics of water, food and shelter and a little money coming in. And we may want a nicer house or better car or faster computer. But our most fundamental yearning is not tangible at all. It’s connection. Sure, connection looks tangible. After...