The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life

Finding what is uniquely yours requires more than rationality. You have to learn how your body speaks. You have to learn how you know what you know. You have to follow the inner tracks of your feelings, sensations, and instincts, the integrity and truth that are deeper than ideas about what you should do. You have to learn to follow a deeper, wiser

We live with our attention directed outward. We focus on the social cues of our culture. We look to others to define our path and value and purpose. We lose ourselves in shoulds. Shoulds are full of traps—traps laid by society and your limited rules for yourself. No wild animal has ever participated in a should. What you know to do is deeper than t

Find your flow and remember to see how many unexpected things come into your life by living this way. It will be scary at times. Let the fear bring you to life.

Where else in my life was there a path that I was missing? The implications felt profound.

I often couldn’t find the first small beginning and then the next small beginning. I couldn’t dial huge possibilities into small practical actions. I couldn’t trust that doing enough of what needed to be done today would, with time, render a path and an outcome that could be great.

My whole life I have been afflicted and blessed with a sense that there is a way in which life delivers us to a place ordered by some intelligence beyond our own.

Given the paths I had walked so far, I was obviously drawn by the notion that a change in people could change the world. Yet something about the whole business of life coaching never quite sat well with me. Coming from the South African bushveld, I felt pretty certain life did not need a coach.

It’s hard to think of something more anciently enchanting and connected than having a wild bird as a guide. Unlike modern men who have been taught to live in competition, Renias lives in profound relation with his surroundings. He knows how to hunt warthogs when they burrow in termite mounds and how to cook a tortoise. In some ways Ren is more in t

7 Bateleur in the Sky High in a tree, a furred brute of a baboon is sitting with his legs tucked under himself and his hands resting on his knees.