Authenticity The Last Thing You Try to Control I was ending a professional relationship. Five sentences would have been enough. I wrote 847 words instead—and that wasn't even the first draft. Twenty years of practicing non-attachment, and I still couldn't let someone misunderstand me.
Critical Thinking Featured The Fanaticism Test I run this test regularly like antivirus software for the soul: Can I disagree with my teacher and still respect them? Can I question the system and still practice within it?
Spiritual Organizations The Volunteering Trap I spent twenty years confusing exhaustion with devotion. Here's how volunteering becomes a cage - and the one question that reveals whether your generosity is a choice or a compulsion.
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.