I’d like to preface this by saying that books such as these are no guarantee to immediately finding your purpose or calling.   Doing so is not usually a small…

“If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill, let yourself fall ill.”Rumi It’s not uncommon to hear clients use the word “fix” in session, often said with some amount of…

In a previous post I wrote about my first attempt at fasting for longer than a day.  It ended up being 70 hours. For the first 1 or 2 days…

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few."Shunryu Suzuki This is one of the first lines (maybe even the first) from the…

"The wound is the place where the light enters."Rumi This simple quote is a great pointer for handling pain, struggle, and difficult times. Our thinking mind's job is to prevent…

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any…

“In order to find the patient, we must look for him inside of ourselves.”Christopher Bollas I came across this quote recently in a psychotherapy textbook, and thought it worthy of…

“Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.”William Shakespeare This quote reminds me of hedonic adaptation, the phenomenon that we adapt surprisingly quickly to pleasure or pain. This…