The Wake Up Call for Lawyers
The Wake Up Call for Lawyers
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The Consequences of…Everything
There are times when I say something harsh or in anger. This feels hard to face and even harder to write, but it’s true – and maybe for you, too. For me there’s relief in facing and naming it.The consequences are also hard to face: the h...
Right Now It’s Like This
There’s such a temptation to treat mindfulness practice as something that’s getting me somewhere. But whenever I do that, I fall short. Sure, after all these years, I’m a little less reactive and a little happier. My set point has m...
The Mischievous Mind
I feel like most of us are trying to be good people: kind, caring, well-disposed towards others. So why doesn’t it turn out that way? Why don’t we have the power to simply be like that all the time?The problem may be with our mischievous...
The Thousands of Ways We Fool Ourselves
I’m great at philosophizing and offering advice about how to be kinder, more compassionate, even wiser. But who am I fooling? My philosophy is theoretical, and honestly, on those topics, what’s anyone’s advice worth?Not much, because no ...
Bringing Faith to Our 250th Birthday Party
Faith is an old-fashioned word. Maybe its most well-known meaning is religious. But true faith predates religion. Ancient humans had faith in the earth, the animals, the stars. I don’t know much about that kind of faith, but I...
