I’m frequently guilty of beginning my own introductions with references to what I’ve done or do for a living, as if that tells someone who I am. “Hey, I’m Chris. I spent twenty years with an international humanitarian organization fighting human trafficking; I currently run a nonprofit, a center for contemplative activism.” These little bits of my

For example, the roles we have in life are concepts, agreements (again) between human beings, and yet so often we can over-identify with them, or let them define us.