How much are you holding back in life? How much are you waiting for something to be different before you can live fully? How much are you holding in reserve? How much are you expecting that at some future time, things will be different, to the point where you can really come alive, you can […]

Here in Canada, this is Victoria Day. This is a very distinctive Canadian holiday, I believe maybe only here, celebrating Queen Victoria’s birthday. Now, she hasn’t been around for over a century, but it’s one of those old-time Canadian holidays. And one of the things about this holiday is, for Canada, it’s traditionally the beginning

You know, it seems like there’s no end to the fun that can be had in playing with stories and applying them to our lives, designing the stories that we want to somehow make sense of and add a layer of meaning and interpretation on top of the mix of events that makes up our

I’ve been thinking about this whole idea of harmony and alignment with things, making choices that bring us in harmony with what’s going on, versus instead trying to fight what’s going on and trying to kind of deny reality. And you know, one way to deny reality is simply by escapism, simply by not thinking

I’ve talked about how it seems like real life is not like a story, and it doesn’t follow the rules of the story, and it doesn’t necessarily fit into any story. But I don’t mean to suggest that stories should be completely ignored. Not at all. It’s only that there’s no essential story that’s automatically

The whole world of self-development can really get lost in the details, it seems. I mean, you can look for all these ways to improve, improve, improve, but a lot of it is really kind of mechanical. it’s kind of like making yourself a better machine. And we can become so lost in the details

One of the most powerful feelings of all, that seems to be behind so much human behaviour, is quite simply the fear of death. And it’s very understandable and natural that this is a big part of our behaviour, because it makes sense to have some fear of death. I mean, if fear is something

Faith is a word with a bad reputation, or at least certainly a whole range of connotations. I can’t even say the word “faith” without immediately imagining some kind of religious belief in some supernatural event that breaks all known laws of the universe, but I believe in it because I simply have faith. I’m

I’m thinking about the perspective on the timeline. We look at past, present and future. Now, of course, we don’t even need to think of it as a timeline at all. That’s just one way of looking at it. But if we imagine how we picture ourselves in the time dimension, past, present, future: now,

I talked about how it can be almost dangerous, in a way, to think about life too much like a story, because the things that happen to us, events in the real world are not laid on us like a carefully designed, orchestrated, prepared story made by a storyteller. At least as far as any