Slowly I began to see that many of the boxes I found myself in were of my own making. I tended to construct them, crawl in, then wonder who…

I was starting a new job for a corporation. I was good at what I did for a living. The personnel manager and I were down to the details…

On the last day of my retreat, I told the guestmaster that I didn’t think that I would be able to get back soon because I didn’t have the…

Many of us have worked too hard to make relationships work; sometimes those relationships didn’t have a chance because the other person was unavailable or refused to participate. To…

The world shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.— Anaïs Nin  First you crawled; then you learned to walk, and the world grew a little bigger. You learned…

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou ‘canst not then be false to any man.— WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE…

Mr. Potter celebrated his hundredth birthday by doing a bungee jump from a 210 foot tower. When his physician of many years advised him against it, he simply got…

There is a gift for us in each relationship that comes our way. Sometimes the gift is a behavior we’re learning to acquire: detachment, self-esteem, becoming confident enough to…

There’s nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there—that’s disgrace.— Edmund Vance Cooke  Sometimes the problem isn’t that we don’t believe we can. The problem is that…

Do something fun today. If you’re relaxing, let yourself relax, without guilt, without worrying about the work that is undone. If you’re with loved ones, let yourself love them,…