We’re bigger than any single truth we think we have found. — There’s a mountain in me An avalanche of silences A vault of abandoned avenues The multitude I hold in There’s a path in me The steps I’ve been avoiding The void below, the light I saw before I stopped. One inch too soon. It’s always too soon to leave a trail or…

The entire universe hides in little snapshots of ordinary life — 1. It’s an extraordinary Monday. I jump out of bed with a grin. It’s not that I usually wake up grouchy, but this morning — perhaps for the first time in years — it won’t be me pretending that the weekend didn’t take place. The game was on Saturday, but the…

How do you deal with something you didn’t even know existed? — June 2005. It’s hot, but that’s not why I’m sweating. I’m still in the car, the torn open envelope on my lap mirrors the state of my soul. What the hell am I going to do now? I couldn’t know this yet, but I was experiencing the first in a…

Waiting for permission is at the heart of many struggles in our lives. Learn to recognize it and unleash your full potential. — There is an unspoken agreement, within the wizarding world, of never mentioning… well, You-know-who. The One-who-shall-not-be-named. And then, there’s permission. We look for it everywhere, yet we rarely call it by its name. This is what I learned over the years as a transformative coach and as a human being…

Be yourself, out loud. We need to hear your voice. — Being Generous, in the broadest sense, is a way of being and acting in line with the grace and the greatness of who we really are. The word ‘generous’ in fact comes from the Latin ‘genus,’ and it means birth, lineage, source. As human beings, it means understanding our nature…

How I am dealing with that sense of urgency I often experience. — “When your mind messes with you, you can mess back” I once heard my mentor Michael Neill using this sentence during a workshop. I don’t recall the exact context now, but those words stuck with me. I am someone who tends to come up with a million ideas I’d like…

The story of the best decision of my life — Parents. Best practices. Friends. Gurus. Books. Proverbs. Traditions. Common sense. The experts. Old beliefs. The neighbors. Their cat. Why is it so easy to consider anybody’s opinion but mine? In hindsight, I can say that this question heavily shaped my professional and personal life. For a long time, when I…

A Poet is a “seer” and a maker. All of us can be, and are, poets in our life. I’m using the term in the broadest possible sense and as a metaphor for a life lived out loud. The word poetry stems from Ancient Greek (ποίησις) and it means ‘to make’. What makes something “poetry” in our eyes…