There’s something I’ve experienced with expectations. They can create both greatness and not so greatness in people (including myself). When I instructed for the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), I saw over and over how clearly communicated expectations of students created a better leader, follower, outdoor cook, and expedition member. But here’s where expectations are

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The long answer is “YES.” Yes, yes, and yes. ANYTHING can be used to escape from what we feel in the body. Including meditation. And the entire spiritual path. “I’ll just say my prayers, do my mantras, meditate, wish good will to the world… but don’t ask me to call my brother I haven’t talked

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Sometimes the spiritual journey can seem like a hoax. What’s it all for anyway? And sometimes nothing else matters but the spiritual path. As if it finally provides meaning to life in a way that nothing else has. When it feels like a hoax is when we have expectations that aren’t being met. Caroline Myss

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Curses to life when it doesn’t go as planned. But who makes the plan anyway? It’s a little part of my brain that decides what the plan is. How can that little part of my brain control all the factors that go into that plan unfolding as I want it ? I mean really? My

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Having a Catholic nun as one grandmother and a devout Catholic as another grandmother, I had a healthy dose of the Catholic experience growing up. I received a rosary from each grandmother every year for my birthday (need a rosary?), and went to church weekly. Every Sunday, dad would get us all piled into the

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Life give you miracles every day. It’s hard to see sometimes when we get caught up in the minutia of the daily-ness. I want to introduce you to Sam Berns. Philosopher, high school student, and one incredible human being. Sam made no excuses. He was an inspiration this way. He shows us that each day

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I spent much of my life being free – free to play, free to choose where I went to school, free to work, free to own a home, free to travel, free to drive a car, and free to dress how I wanted. Yet I wasn’t free.  Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years and

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There’s a song by the Goo Goo Dolls with this line in it, “The end of fear is where we begin – The moment we decide to let love in.” I’ve heard it sung many times. Words, powerful words. But up until now, I hadn’t really “let love in” fully. Rumi says, “Your task is

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For the last 6 months I’ve been taking a weekly ballet class. The reason? To create my intention and dream of being a beautiful and talented tango dancer. It’s also in alignment with my word of the year for 2014 “sensual.” At first, not having any ballet background (well, a short stint in a class

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I recently spent 5 hours with a business coach to get clarity on how to take my business to the next level. I had a sense of this, but I was searching for something concrete. Something I could sink my teeth into and take action in.  What unfolded on that day came through my intuition.

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