What’s in the Water?
Guidance for Swimming Against the Stream
In waking up to whiteness, there are questions to answer and ideas to confront. Molly’s insights bring perspective and clarity.
Are you living as if life is a race or a dance?
Two steps forward, one step back may be a problematic strategy for running a marathon. But what if life is not a race, but a dance? And what if YOU get to choose which one it will be?
The spirituality we seek is in what we look from, not what we look for
Often we long for spiritual connection and wish we could experience more of it in our relationships, our work, our world. But the connection we seek isn't a function of what we are looking FOR, it is a function of what we are looking FROM. To experience more of it, we...
Early bird deadline: The Art of Living
This is a heads up that the early bird discount (save $100) for The Art of Living ends tomorrow, April 19, 2016, at 5pm Pacific time. The Art of Living: Creating Magic and Meaning in Life and Work is the culmination of years of seeking, learning, and experimentation....
Just being IS making a contribution
The flowering tree doesn't have to make an effort to contribute its beauty to the world. What if your contribution is just as natural and inevitable?
Put down the weapon, keep the insight
Last week I introduced the notion of weaponized insights. I said that a weaponized insight is no longer operating as an insight, because as soon as it is twisted into a comment on your wholeness, value, or deservingness, it is not longer insightful. There's another...
Watch where you point that thing!
The problem of weaponized insight A participant in the Come Alive and Do the Thing! Mastermind has a brilliant term for the use of a supposedly wise observation to critique or diminish another person: weaponized insight. Don't you love it? At first it was thrilling to...
A weaponized insight is not an insight
A participant in the Come Alive and Do the Thing! group came up with a terrific term for insights that people offer you (of that you offer yourself) that are wrapped in the message that there is something wrong with you. She calls them weaponized insights. And here's...
Worrying doesn’t help; not worrying doesn’t hurt
The title says it all, except for this: "No, really." In every situation, including horrific ones, worrying doesn't help. Caring helps. Love helps. And the less we worry, the clearer our minds and freer our hearts to express caring and love. Click here to learn about...
If You Want to See the Divine Start Here
Albert Einstein once remarked to Werner Heisenberg, “Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.” When we operate from the basis that there is or can be anything fundamentally wrong...