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Our younger selves think in terms of a beginning, middle, and some kind of resolution. But somewhere along the way—perhaps in that middle—we realize t

Per Frank Chen:The word “threshold” represents that moment of stepping through a doorway, not quite in either room, that captures the experience of be

“Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on living the same lives that they lived in the

Whatever type of change catalyst you experience, it throws you into the first phase of change. I call this phase called Square One, because clients wh

One of the great gifts of relationship and marriage—and there are many—is the ability to see the world through the eyes of another person, intimately,

The key question: What are you not doing that you could be doing to express what’s important to you? It could be something simple, such as spending ti

The capacity to align your actions with your values is central to acting with authenticity. It’s thinking through life’s choices in light of what you

To be innovative is to be on the lookout for new ways to get things done that make sense to you, and those who matter most to you, not every minute of

Successful people make it their business to be conscious of what and who matter most. Their actions flow from their values. They strive to do what the

“My advice to you and your team is to just be yourselves,” Rubin explained. “Because if you do what you think the rest of the world wants, one of two

Creative inventiveness I would put quite low on my list of ambitions for the student. I would be more than happy if he only ended up being able to dis

If reflection reveals who you are and relationship reveals the world you want to see, then creation is what merges those two domains together. By expr

“Desire that arises in agitation is an expression of the ego; desire that arises in stillness is an expression of the soul.”

My soul, when I tend to it, is a far more expansive and fascinating source of guidance than my ego will ever be, because my soul desires only one thin

“My advice to you and your team is to just be yourselves,” Rubin explained. “Because if you do what you think the rest of the world wants, one of two

If reflection reveals who you are and relationship reveals the world you want to see, then creation is what merges those two domains together. By expr

it’s remarkable how much abundance can be blocked by a mild fear of being seen

A question worth asking: When there is so much on the web, it is easy to fall prey to the impression that this has been done before when you come up w

Don’t shrink the vision to fit the doubt

Emotional Self-Management: I like to think of this as accepting the emotions you have instead of having emotions about having emotions in an endless s

Who we choose to orbit defines, over time, the texture and colour palette of our becoming. Love becomes a technology of transformation, a living inter

This essay is about how we made our first home together. By home I don’t mean just the physical structure, but the emotional space in which the coevol

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and deve

There are ways of unfolding big leaps.

yes another way of saying "set an intention" is "create an image for what I could be perceiving, notice how that is different from what I am perc

“If your soul is awakened, then you realize that this is the house of your real belonging. Your longing is safe there. Belonging is related to longing

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and deve

There are ways of unfolding big leaps.

One of the great gifts of relationship and marriage—and there are many—is the ability to see the world through the eyes of another person, intimately,

Annealing can produce durable patterns, but isn’t permanent; over time, discontinuities creep back in as the system gets ‘cold-worked’. To stay in lov

This is one of the joys and challenges of love: the more skillfully you love someone, the more held, encouraged, and accepted they feel, the more they

This energy we are discussing does not come from the calories your body burns from food. There is a source of energy you can draw upon from inside. It

That tradition teaches that our essence-nature, the core of our being, which is also the ground of being itself, cannot be grasped by the mind and so

Experiments have capped downside but unknown upside.

The context is smarter than you. It holds more nuance and information than you can fit in your head. Collaborate with it.

Creative inventiveness I would put quite low on my list of ambitions for the student. I would be more than happy if he only ended up being able to dis

This has fractured the essay into competing mediums.  “Articles” use factoids to make mechanical arguments, while “opinion pieces” weave feelings in a

So much of my writing practice is simply about writing when the urge to write strikes. If I miss that window or assume it will stick around and wait f

“You go back to work. You take advantage of the quiet time that a failure allows you. You remind yourself that no one is paying any attention to you a

Don’t shrink the vision to fit the doubt

Simplicity isn’t just a visual style. It’s not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of the complexity. To

Let me show you the four levels that separate content creators from category leaders:Level 1: The Knowledge TrapYou're creating solid content—guides,

Tired: Rushing to quick answers or public declarations Wired: Sitting with questions, refining them in trusted company, and waiting until the shape o

Life has a 100 percent mortality rate. Every single one of us will die, and most of us have no idea how or when that will happen. In fact, as each sec

All of us are on borrowed time. There are no refunds and there are no guarantees.At some point, the only time you’ll have to worry about is the time y

"How do I stay conscious enough to recognize beauty before it becomes memory?"

It is six A.M., and I am working. I am absentminded, reckless, heedless of social obligations, etc. It is as it must be. The tire goes flat, the tooth

The best scientists aren’t those who are the most intelligent; they are the ones who tweak their theories further than others, in close contact with e

The context is smarter than you. It holds more nuance and information than you can fit in your head. Collaborate with it.

Instead of trying to force a vision, here is how you can lean into unfolding.You observe the context (when applying to university, trying to figure ou

Experiments have capped downside but unknown upside.

This latter habit was the most important. I was learning to program, and so I liked to think about our life as a piece of software. We had our routine

The context is smarter than you. It holds more nuance and information than you can fit in your head. Collaborate with it.

Instead of trying to force a vision, here is how you can lean into unfolding.You observe the context (when applying to university, trying to figure ou

The context is smarter than you. It holds more nuance and information than you can fit in your head. Collaborate with it.

Under steady warmth and reflection, flaws rearrange and we soften. Love in its all its form is profoundly transformative.No one learns to love themsel

We become what others imagine us as. Or as the saying goes, I am not me. I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am. Which is to s

There probably exists someone who enabled that evolution of personality. A parent, a friend group, a spouse. It is rare for people to come into themse

The context is smarter than you. It holds more nuance and information than you can fit in your head. Collaborate with it.