Resources for Deeper Understanding
Molly brings an anti-racist lens to every interaction. Plug in below to hear her thoughts on whiteness, how she is still learning, and how to grapple with what whiteness means in your own life and work.
The humbling truth: we are always doing our best
In every moment each human being is doing his or her level best. That's the humbling, magnificent, encouraging, discouraging truth. And the more deeply we see this, the more we access compassion for...
The Cat Box Insight
In which I recount my great cat box insight: in any given moment you either want to clean the cat box or you don't. Pretending that you are not doing what you choose to do just makes things...
Navigating from a good feeling versus attachment to the feeling
Syd Banks talks about trusting a feeling. But there is a huge difference between noticing and navigating from that lovely feeling and being attached to the feeling itself.
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...
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,...
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...
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...