What is the job of a spiritual teacher? — There are many of us who choose to go at it alone in this lifetime. Some of us gather a few like-minded companions along the way, crossing paths by the weaving of intention and chance, but with the great pilgrimage that should be called “the search for my life’s meaning”…

Who’s really callin’ the shots? What are thoughts? I don’t mean where they’re from, how they are made, or what they’re made of. I don’t care about that, and neither should you. A fish is in no position to explain the ocean, the bubbles obscure the view; yet nothing knows…

Silence is victory. I believe the removal of my ego required a fight: a coordinated struggle. A metaphysical wrestling match. An existential showdown. I believe my ego has tasted death; deluded and mortally wounded. Snuffed out like a candle flame. Slain clean as if it were the devil himself. I believe my ego…

Profound wisdom can be found anywhere, even on your television. Throughout the years when I was navigating my own spiritual journey, I always imagined my greatest discoveries would come from old religious texts. I thought the answers to life must be hidden within one or all of these cryptic books…

Why people who do nothing with their lives might be wiser than you think Many of you have probably heard the phrase non-doing, or the ancient Chinese term Wu-Wei. As a central concept within the heart of Taoism (Daoism) it has become a popular philosophy today not only in the…

“The plain fact is that if you don’t have a problem, you create one. If you don’t have a problem you don’t feel that you are living.” — U.G. Krishnamurti Someone had to say it, right? Have you ever met a person who doesn’t have problems? I haven’t. The strange…