Community & Relationship
Hi there! The adrenalin is flowing through my veins this morning, because I’m so excited to have a guest post, Why Happy Couples Should Be Apart, at one of my favorite favorite favorite blogs, World’s Strongest Librarian. Josh Hanagarne, the blogger behind the magic of World’s Strongest Librarian, describes himself as “an aspiring strongman, bookish [...]
In case you’ve forgotten, I just wanted to remind you of something important. I needed to be reminded about it, and I have a feeling you do too. A few weeks ago I was having coffee with a friend. I hadn’t seen her in months, but she’d been receiving my email newsletter so she had [...]
Let them be themselves and run their lives. You worry about your own. Continually and regularly point out to them their brilliance; they don’t see it clearly and they don’t know its immensity. Be yourself, so that they receive the gift of a real relationship and of the real you. Do your [...]
I can give you a really easy tip for significantly increasing your level of happiness, and doing so very quickly: shrink your business. Look at the whole of what you conceive of as “your business,” all the things you have an opinion about, work on, intervene into and are concerned with. Reduce it by 85%. [...]
This is a forgiveness meditation I recently wrote. Its about forgiving others and ourselves. *** You deserve more, more joy and satisfaction and moments of peace. And in order to have all of that, you need to become less, to release the burdens you carry. Not the rent or your mother’s illness [...]
Love is not only the thing we define it as in our culture – the close, warm, affectionate feelings toward others. The goodwill towards them. That is only one small thread in the great fabric of love. Love is the relaxation of all worry and fear, the coming home to wholeness. Love is the container [...]
Change and Your Mind I’ll admit it. I fell asleep to dreamy images of our new first couple dancing across my mind. The scenes of the Inaugural Balls stayed with me after the TV went off, followed me into bed and played in my head as I drifted into sleep. My mind was gripped by [...]
I had dinner last night with four wonderful women friends. As we sat in a circle around a large round table, it felt just right, as if this is how our spirits sit with one another in some other place all the time. We are each working toward greater authenticity, new career journeys, and more [...]
I spent the day traveling home from Mexico reading Martin Seligman’s quite good book, Authentic Happiness. Seligman is an American psychologist, professor of psychology, and past president of the American Psychological Association. He is considered the father of positive psychology, which departed from the dominant focus of 20th century psychology—mental illness—and turned to study of happiness, fulfillment [...]
Karen Armstrong won this year’s TED Prize, which provided her with $100,000 to spend on fulfilling a wish for the world. She is working with global religious leaders to create an interfaith Charter for Compassion that will include contributions from individuals from around the globe. Visit the site at http://charterforcompassion.com/ to contribute your words [...]
