overcoming suffering

The world is awash in prophets and guides, gurus and gods, masters and mentors who would – usually for a fee, always for your idolatry and worship – lead you to some imaginary promised land. For a time I had one of these false…

Studies and polls tell us a huge percentage of kids are anxious, depressed, or just downright miserable – that millions struggle just to make it through the day. The adult world’s answer to managing these gaping psychic wounds? To apply more of the same cultural and parental…

So when you think about yourself and those you know best, what is it that each of us wants above all else? When you peel back all the thoughts and desires, the wants and needs, the layers of anxiety and suffering, what lurks at…

Nothing matters. Now there’s a fun-loving rhetorical turd you should try dropping at a dinner party sometime. People go positively apoplectic when you suggest their lives – life itself – is meaningless. But it’s true. And you don’t need me to prove it. You…

Are you able to let go, to really surrender to life, to let it take you wherever it sees fit? I know I’m not. I try. But if I catch myself, that surrender comes easiest when there’s a bit of security around me. The…

In the Silence is where all the power is. In the Silence is where all the answers are. – Robert Adams There are times when I stand on a hillside or deep in the woods or sitting quietly on my porch, when the Great Truth…