It’s been roughly three years since the launch of this blog and if I had to sum up everything I’ve learned over that stretch of time it would boil down to something like this:

1. Let go

Suffering cannot be healed so long as we work so hard to protect the source of that suffering. If you chafe at criticism, consider for a moment what it is you’re clinging to.

2. Stop bullshitting yourself

Early in life you were given – and since then have been reinforcing – a story of ‘you.’

Which means it’s not YOUR story.

Which means it’s not YOU.

So what exactly are you going on about all the time?

3. Go stag

Each of us is haunted by our sense of separation – we aren’t afraid of dying, we’re afraid of going alone. But can anyone ever find that wholeness by emulating, worshipping, or otherwise clinging to the words, thoughts, or deeds of another?

4. Turn within

For thousands of years millions upon millions of us have tried every imaginable form of spiritual outlet and ignored the one door that is uniquely our own. To ‘know thyself’ is the central ingredient and, really, the only path authentically available to us.

Click here for a humorous poke at how most of us humans tackle ‘spirituality.’