To Clear the Way: on Need, Want, & Desire
What do you need to pay the rent? What do you need to feel healthy? What do you need to laugh again? What do you need to take care of...
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- Jun 13, 2013
Seek Desire
. Seek out that which kindles desire in you. Is it this song? That painting? People on the street? This nightclub? That forest? Is it the...
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- Dec 12, 2012
Prioritize Desire
. What does your heart or soul long for? What do your thoughts turn to? What is the desire that has been coiling at your core? What are...
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- Nov 14, 2012
Choose (Love)
. What exactly is it that you desire? What fills your heart and soul? What engages your actions? What are you choosing to make central to...
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- May 24, 2012
Ordinary and Amazing
. Yes, we are ordinary. Life is simply as it is, and stories seem exciting simply because excitement engages our emotions and draws us...
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- Aug 24, 2011
Accepting Failure Creates Success
I fail every day. Just ask my students. I also succeed. The same students – or clients, or friends – might likely tell you that, as well....
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- Jul 27, 2011
You Can Do This Amazing Thing
Sometimes we fear being taken over by desire: fearful that we will become out of control, obsessed, unrecognizable, arrogant, no longer...
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- Jul 18, 2011
Risking Criticism
“We won’t lie. The decision to become visible is a risk.” – Chris Brogan and Julien Smith We have put ourselves out there, followed the...
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- Jun 24, 2011
Redefining Success
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou Love and creativity are renewable resources....
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- Jun 16, 2011
Trying to Know (Thyself)
The power To Know* requires a willingness to try, to attempt presence, to live with ourselves as we are and as we are becoming. It...
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- Jun 6, 2011
Set the World on Fire
There are many books written on self-love, probably more than are written on selfishness, though we could likely debate that. I’m not...
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- Feb 15, 2011
Be Still… and Know.
photo by Scott Liddell How do we open to knowledge? How do we follow it? The answer to both questions is the same: we learn to listen....
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- Jan 2, 2011
Ordinary Brilliance
“I feel frustrated that I cannot seem to touch the core idea of what my deepest desire really is. I have feelings around it, but not the...
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- Oct 28, 2010
Inquiry, Engagement, Caring, and Delight
“Failing helps you see how far is too far, failing helps remind you that failing isn’t fatal, and most of all, failing opens you up to...
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- Oct 23, 2010
Live the Life You Want: a Very Long Post!
Personal example: I don’t comprehend authors who “write the books they have to so they can someday write the books they want to”. That...
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- Oct 16, 2010
The Persistence of Desire
(more notes from a larger work in progress) We often think of desire as a sharp yearning, something filled with fire and passion, a...
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- Jul 12, 2010
Your Life is Not on Hold
Dance a new creation today. Rise up inside yourself and find that which dances. You have waited too long in silence, in the corners of...
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- Jul 10, 2010
You Can’t Copy a Revolution
When you hear the call of your soul, what in you feels excitement, and what within you feels dread? There is story after story of...
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- May 11, 2010
What do You Offer the World?
What is your recipe for making trouble? How do you upset the status quo? What do you infuse your work with? What inspires you to take the...
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- Apr 23, 2010
Risk. Desire. Connection.
“Talking in an unhurried way with neighbors or walking across a field with a child — we are powerfully full of information, visions,...
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