Practice Featured The Minimum Viable Spiritual Practice I used to meditate for two hours every day. Now I do thirty minutes. Not giving up—figuring out what actually works. Meditation + writing, daily.
Authenticity Why I Don't Want to Be Famous (And What I Want Instead) What if the thing everyone seems to want is actually a trap? I've been thinking about this since I watched an interview with a musician whose songs I'd loved for years.
Critical Thinking The Lie Self-Help Keeps Telling You I want to tell you about the moment I realized I'd been running on a treadmill for fifteen years. Not a literal treadmill—this was worse. This was a treadmill made of books, courses, retreats, and meditation apps.
Practice Featured A Meditation Practice for People Who Hate Meditation Let me guess: someone told you to meditate and you tried it once, maybe twice, and it felt like sitting still while your brain screamed at you. Welcome to the club. I've been a member for thirty years.
Emotions Featured Why "Think Positive" Is Terrible Advice If you do something a thousand times, you're going to mess it up at least once. Last month, attempt three-hundred-something involved a hammer, a nail, and my left thumbnail. The hammer won.
Critical Thinking What Nobody Tells You About Spiritual Organizations Here's something that took me embarrassingly long to figure out: spiritual organizations are still organizations. I know. Groundbreaking insight. But this obvious fact has non-obvious implications.
Authenticity The Authenticity Trap (Why "Being Yourself" Is Harder Than It Sounds) Here's a question that keeps me up at night: the moment you try to be authentic, are you still being authentic? You're at a dinner party, someone says something you disagree with. You pause. You consider.
Growth The One Question That Changed How I See Failure There's a moment I keep coming back to. Not dramatic—no lightning strike revelation. Just a quiet afternoon, a group waiting for tasks, and a question from somewhere I hadn't been paying attention to: Is this it?
Foundation Featured What Your Guru Forgot to Tell You Here's something that complicates the narrative: my current teacher actually told me. 'Verify everything,' he said. 'Don't take my word for it.' I've heard him say this dozens of times. And yet.
Practice How to Process Emotions Without Drowning in Them Last Tuesday, I got an email that made my chest tight before I'd finished the first sentence. After thirty years of meditation, I still had all those reactions. The difference is what happened next.
Foundation Featured What Twenty Years of Meditation Actually Taught Me I need to tell you about two versions of myself. The first was twenty years old and certain he'd found the answer. The second is writing this now - still practicing, but with his eyes open this time.
