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As I’m writing this from my little corner of Minneapolis, the helicopters are circling above my neighborhood. It’s been a tough week for my friends and my neighbors. We’re angry. We’re shocked. We’re ...

On Valentine’s Day, loneliness, and the quiet cost of false intimacy. We keep hearing the same phrase repeated like a diagnosis: loneliness is an epidemic. Articles warn of rising isolation. Studies ...

And that’s not because you don’t want to or because you don’t know how. It’s because something inside you freezes the moment you even think of leaning on someone else. There is a voice inside of you ...

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“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. To understand the true nature of the universe, ...

It’s actually the key to a happy romance and life. Here’s why. Isn’t non-attachment something very similar to indifference? Actually, not at all. Non-attachment is a highly beneficial state of mind in ...

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, ...

It’s better to take our time than trade a job well done for hasty speediness. Busy can be good! Chaos can be delightful (and hard on our egos). But busy-ness…not so much—and our never-ending quest for ...

Everyone and their mom knows, at least intellectually, that the whole of creation is in a state of endless revolution. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus famously said, “No same man could walk through ...

Most of us love a glass of wine over dinner or a cold beer on a hot summer day. In moderation, it can make us feel good. It’s part of our culture. We enjoy sharing a few drinks with friends. But what ...

Negativity isn’t negative. It’s a part of life. How we handle it can be negative—if we push it away and close up, that is negative. Stop “protecting” yourself from negative energy. Start loving ...