Let's start our conversation around love with some fundamental, experiential basics about how we work in the world. So to begin, we must understand th...

As we begin this conversation about love, I want to start with a wonderful quote from Maya Angelou: “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, le...

Freedom is often considered a fundamental human value, but its definition and experience can be more nuanced than a simple absence of restriction. ...

It is a strange thing
to be seen.

Not in the easy way;
the wave or smile passed
across a crowded room,
but in the way a hand
finds another’s in the dark. ...

Now that we’ve established that free will is an illusion, it follows that freedom is less binary and more a process. It breathes. There's an opening a...

No discussion around freedom would be complete without an exploration of free will. Now this is a very large and loaded topic with volumes and volumes...

Let’s take this idea of constraints a little further. Naturally, as human beings, we have physical constraints, like the fact that we must eat and bre...

What does it mean to be free? 
What does it feel like to be free? 

Is the leaf carried by the wind free? 
Is the soaring bird free? 

I used to think f...

I wanted to take the opportunity to go through what I call an archaeology of freedom: meaning, I want to lay out a first approach and then introduce f...

Forgiveness is often misunderstood and misrepresented. It's not just a moral or religious concept but a deeply personal journey that each of us must n...

I'd like to share a quote by David Whyte: “To forgive is to assume a larger identity than the person who was first hurt. To mature and bring to fruiti...

Forgiveness is letting go of wishing that the past was any different than it was. 

If we are able to let go of the expectation we had of that person,...