Generous Listening
Krista Tippett, the host of the On Being podcast and author of Becoming Wise, speaks of “generous listening”—an attitude of open-hearted curiosity that says I want to understand what is …
Expectation and Resentment
In a recent Science of Mind issue, Michael Gott wrote that an old timer in Alcoholics Anonymous once said that “expectations are resentments in training.” When I think about what …
The Child in Every Grownup
As I walked the other morning listening to Krista Tippet’s interview with Alain de Botton, I was struck with how I had been raised by two children. Not literally, of …
Sculpting the Real Self
Sculpting the Real Self I once read that Michaelangelo was asked how he managed to create the magnificent statue of David, and he replied that he carved away all …
Eclipse of the Heart
Eclipse of the HeartRev. Michael Gott used the metaphor of an eclipse in the Science of Mind magazine–a metaphor that I also used in describing my experience in Riptide. An …
Self-Trust and Leaving Home
Self-Trust and Leaving HomeSometimes we don’t start leaving home until well into middle age or beyond. Some folks never do. (This may be apparent if you are a regular consumer …
Connection v. Protection
When I see a couple in which fight or flight (attacking or shutting down as typical relational conflict strategies) is happening, I know that the only way to begin healing the dispute is to follow Einstein’s advice to transcend the level at which the problem was created.
Love can break through the wall, if…
Brett and Tina, an attractive young couple who married five years ago, have been living separately for 18 months. They exchange their four-year-old son, Dylan, every other day because neither …
Perpetual Motion and Identity
I read an article recently about how a renowned economist toward the end of the Nineteen Century predicted that by the time we are now living in, production would be …
Mortality & Grace
While watching an older, heftier Dan Ackroyd reprise the classic Bass-O-Matic skit during the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary special recently, I was transported back to my parents’ living room, …
