Conscious Living

A few words on coincidence, kismet, synchronicity – those curious little breadcrumbs some higher intelligence seemingly sprinkles throughout our lives in hopes, I suppose, of leading us to a greater truth. Mostly because I’ve experienced both, I’ve come to suspect there are two forms…

We imagine that the so-called ‘spiritual path’ is principally reserved for the world’s sufferers. The miserable set out to find themselves or the truth or God or whatever, so that they can put an end to their suffering and get back to the business…

In case you missed it, the planet’s insects have now joined the planet’s other animal groups, its rainforests and oceans, its climate and mammals, in a catastrophic collapse that puts the entire biosphere (aka life on Earth) at risk. By now you no doubt know…

If you really stop to think about it, to whittle down human existence to its rawest essence, each of us has but one of two choices to make: invest our lives in the outside world, or turn inward to find the source of the…

Self-confidence. Self-loathing. Key measuring sticks by which we measure human happiness or misery, success or failure. We eschew self-loathing, but we aspire to self-confidence, self-esteem, self-love. And what we really want (but shhhh, don’t admit it, since that would make us look bad), is to…

The body of my ex-wife was discovered the day after Thanksgiving. Just days later, a good friend took his own life. Both had struggled, in one way or another, with depression, anxiety, self-loathing – and the heavy drinking that so often comes with such…