The Tools

How can I make things better in the here and now of my actual experience—the only time and place in which I am empowered to act? What is the recurring disaster in our life? What is the unresolved element that keeps bringing us back to this same moment over and over again?

A few obstacles may come up to provide you with the opportunity to become stronger and more definite about your goals. However, if you continue to find too many “closed doors,” if you feel exhausted or drained by your efforts, or feel you are doing something only because you have no other choice — stop! Do something else you have wanted to do. When

Perhaps change only takes place when there is sufficient reason to overcome the inertia of everyday life. Challenging situations create the force needed to bring about change. The problem is that we generally use all the stirred-up energy intended to bring about change, to resist change. I was learning to sit quietly in the midst of the howling win

There comes a moment in life, often in the quietest of hours, when one realizes that the world will continue on its wayward course, indifferent to our desires or frustrations. And it is then, perhaps, that a subtle truth begins to emerge: the only thing we truly possess, the only thing we might, with enough care, exert some mastery over, is our min