"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are." -- C.G. Jung

I've always found it interesting when I hear people say, "What would really make me happy is..." or, "What I really want to do is..."

What that means to me is that they're not living...

Be still and know that I am God
Be still and know that I am
Be still and know that I
Be still and know that
Be still and know
Be still and
Be still
Be

Psalm 46:10

I would imagine that most...

"Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry." -- Rumi

If you were to put your age aside for a minute, how old would you say your spirit is?

By spirit, I mean,...

"Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty." -- John Lennon

I think we all know that we have this thing called "ego." Its origin is Latin and it means "I," and in English it's used to mean "self."

What...

I've been hearing the word "crazy" a lot lately. When I've been talking to people, both friends and clients, I've noticed that when they're talking about what's going on, they say things like "isn't that crazy?" or "that's so crazy," and sometimes even "everyone's crazy," or "the world's crazy."

Whether...

The 9th century Buddhist master Lin Chi is supposed to have said, "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him." This saying has been interpreted to mean that one shouldn't worship the Buddha, but rather take the essence of what he taught and learn from it.

The...

I don't really like using instructional manuals when I have to put something together, especially the ones that look like mini-encyclopedias. I prefer using my instincts and intuition to figure it out, which is said to be our "knowing pointing the way." We're born with both intuition and instincts. The...

Things are such, that someone lifting a cup,
or watching the rain, petting a dog,
or singing, just singing -- could be doing as
much for this universe as anyone."

--Rumi

You know that feeling when you're doing something and you feel completely present and content? It feels like there's...

Years ago, I did a workshop called "The Technology of Change" with psychologist Dr. Robert Lorenz. One of our assignments was to make a list of people we would want to take with us if we were moving to another planet.

Sounds easy enough, right? Many of us didn't...

Years ago, I was at a party and everyone was greeting each other with "Hi, how are you?" And most of the responses were "Fine, how are you?" or "Great!" or "I'm really good, and you?" I was standing next to a prominent actress who suddenly exclaimed to those of...

Are you ready for 2013? Eager to say farewell to 2012? Bye bye, Mayan calendar? And how about those resolutions? Did you accomplish the ones you said you would this year (be honest), or are they going on your new list, if you're even bothering to make one?

Resolutions aren't...

"Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light." -- Dylan Thomas

Numb. Heartbroken. Speechless. Angry. That is how most of us felt when we heard the shocking and so very "surreal" news about the tragic, senseless deaths of 26 people at

Do you ever have those times when you feel like talking back to the TV when the news is on and say something like: "Do we really have to hear this negative stuff again?" Of course you can change the channel if you don't want to listen to who shot...

Most people think that to meditate, you have to sit quietly in a lotus position (legs crossed, the right foot resting on the left thigh) chanting a mantra. When I learned transcendental meditation in the 80s, that's exactly what I did, 20 minutes in the morning and 20...

Watching Leslie Stahl interview Arnold Schwarzenegger on 60 Minutes to promote his new book Total Recall, I felt, as I'm sure many other people did who watched, disturbed by how unemotional he came off when he talked about his infidelities during his relationship with Maria Shriver. But what...

"Do we ever get off those things?" I recently said to my 12-year-old son. I was shutting down my computer for the night and he was having a conversation on Kik, a new instant messaging app on iPhone that allows you to have multiple conversations with people. A...

I recently watched Piers Morgan interview the talented tennis champion Serena Williams. Much of the interview covered her extraordinary career, which was almost cut short recently by a life-threatening health scare. But what really made me sit up and take notice was when he cut to the chase...

I admire a man who can commit. Show me one who loves a woman like she's his queen and that's a man she will treat like a king.

Madonna's new movie, "W.E.," tells the story of a real king, Edward VIII, who not only wanted to love...

Was Demi Moore's need to be hospitalized recently due to her breakup with Ashton Kutcher? Some reports suggest that she was "exhausted" and "stressed over the end of her marriage." However, allegations abound that substance abuse and an eating disorder could be the reason why paramedics came to...

I don't come from a divorced family so maybe I'll never understand it as well as people who do, but even when I was growing up, I don't ever recall as many people getting divorced as I hear about today. Is there something in the water that's causing this? Or...