“To Do” Or Not “To Do”

“To Do” Or Not “To Do”

I recently attended an event with a coach who challenged us to stop dreaming so much and start DOING something about our dreams.  He likened our big dreams to an acorn that had the potential to become an oak tree, and in scenario after scenario, he gave us examples...

A Call For Greater Compassion

A Call For Greater Compassion

Over the weekend, I posted a video on Facebook which shared the message of a famous spiritual teacher. Many were touched by and shared the video, but a few wrote disparaging remarks about the video, claiming that the spiritual teacher couldn’t be trusted because he...

Has Spirituality Become Trendy?

Has Spirituality Become Trendy?

I was reading Chris Grosso's new book The Indie Spiritualist, and while this deep, meaningful, funny, engaging, reverently irreverent book about spirituality has much to love, I found myself particularly drawn to a section where he expresses his uneasiness with how...

A Lesson In Empathy

A Lesson In Empathy

The woman in front of you in the grocery store line just lost her mother after a nine year battle with cancer. Your boss just found out his wife is having an affair. The other mother you ran into in the schoolyard just found out her daughter has a brain tumor. The...