On my printer I have pasted a quote from Odysseus who, two and a half millennia ago, said, "I will stay with it and endure through suffering hardship / and once the heaving sea has shaken my raft to pieces, then I will swim."

Why is this quote there,...

The French surrealist poet, Guillame de Apollinaire once wrote that "Memory is a hunting horn whose sound dies out along the wind." What do we remember, and why, and how does what we do not remember play out in our daily choices, if at all? These are the questions which...

The subject of mortality may or may not come up overtly in my therapy sessions, but it is always implicit, always hovering about the conversation, always seeking to pull us back down into a special thoughtfulness. Today I was talking with a woman who lamented some of the roads not...

In What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life, I suggest that the single most important task of the second half of life is the recovery of personal authority, namely, the discovery of what is true for us, really true, and mobilizing the courage and resources to live our truth...