If you don’t know here you’re going, any road will get you there.
Yogi Berra
Seeking Our Destiny… Will Any Road Do?
How Is Meditation Practicing Who We Are?
Meditation involves simply being aware in the timeless flow of experiencing. When we meditate, we notice hearing, feeling, sensing, all arising in and inseparable from being. We realize that we can disengage from the stories in our mind and stay as awareness as we experience the urge to act. We can fully and lovingly welcome our feelings. Eventually, we realize that meditation isn’t something we do — it’s effortlessly being who we are.
The End of Self-Help
Gail Brenner
Which Wolf Has The Greatest Power?
There’s an old Native American story:
“On my shoulders are two wolves. One is a black wolf, evil, who continually tempts me to do and say the wrong things. On my other shoulder is a white wolf that continually encourages me to live up to my very best.”
A listener asked the man, “Which of these wolves has the greatest power over you?”
The old man replied, “The one I feed.”
The Power of Self-Discipline
Brian Tracy
Does Living Well Require Religious Belief?
The conservatives confirm that religion requires believing fantasies. The progressives confirm that living well has little or nothing to do with believing in religion’s supernatural beings and codified doctrines. Indeed, far from being sustained by such beliefs, living well is actually impeded by it and too often results in leading furiously reactionary, intolerant, exclusionary, avaricious, mean-spirited, science-denying and anti-modern lives.
Hoping Against Hope
John D. Caputo
Transformation vs Enlightenment
Transformation is much more important than enlightenment or liberation or realization. Transformation is both experiential and intellectual, so whether we experience enlightenment or whether we understand enlightenment, if it does not transform who we are and how we live our lives, then it is just an interesting experience or an insightful understanding.
The Way: Meaningful Spirituality for a Modern World
Larry Jordan
Who Knows Anyhow? 