It is said that life gives us what we need, not what we want. I like it that way, because, frankly, I don't know nearly enough to be put in charge of so great a responsibility. I'd just make a mess of things. Letting go and letting life deliver is of course easier said than [...]

Studies and polls tell us a huge percentage of kids are anxious, depressed, or just downright miserable - that millions struggle just to make it through the day. The adult world's answer to managing these gaping psychic wounds? To apply more of the same cultural and parental teachings that are creating the mess in the first place. A [...]

So, you say that you are despondent over the election of Donald Trump? Or, you are depressed over the many who supported Hillary Clinton (or who now oppose Trump and your vote for him)? In short, you are unhappy with the state of things and cannot grasp the thinking of those opposed to you. You [...]

If there's one particularly difficult barrier to knowing our true nature, it's the hard-coded belief that we already know the answer to the question. No need to look, already have a pretty good feel for who I am, but thanks anyway. We envy those who are said to be "comfortable in their own skin," who are [...]

If you're suffering. If you're unhappy about the presidential election. If you're unhappy with your mate or your kids or your job - there's really only one thing you need to do: look within. After all, who or what is unhappy? This is the key to the whole thing, the lone pointer that is the [...]

Not so long ago, walking the dog along a wooded path on a cool foggy morning, deep in contemplation, quietly asking god for help in seeing the truth, came the thunderstruck realization that my entreaties to god were, in fact, god calling out to itself. For the briefest of moments, the idea of a me [...]

When I was a kid my older sister was tasked with teaching me and my brother how to pray to god before bed. So each night she'd come in and help us recite the prayer, and at the end of the prayer we were allowed to append a few beneficiaries to our spiritual largesse. The prayer, [...]

In the beginning a story was told and retold until, eventually, I was born. Over the years I felt increasingly unhappy with its story. It had had no say in it, and frankly, one of the story's principal authors had told a rather grim and miserable story about I being a failure in every way [...]

Across the planet millions - if not billions - of people believe Jesus or a similar prophet of their choice, will at some point return to kick ass, take names, right all the wrongs and, naturally, fast-track the rest of us toward some kind of heaven on earth. There are some problems with this scenario, [...]

I recently went through another one of those stretches where, while my mind was busy agitating over some drama about which I was certain I was 'right' and could be of use to another, a far more valuable lesson was lurking in the background (if I'd just shut my mouth long enough to notice). The source of [...]