Category: Empower Me

The Car Won’t Start! What to Do When Nothing Goes to Plan

When the ignition won’t catch, our first impulse is usually the same as the horror hero’s—we turn the key harder. We chant louder, pray longer, meditate forever, hoping that one more try will get us running again.

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On Not Getting the Job: A Reflection on Freedom and Failure

The Buddhist Middle Way offered another lens.

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The Sight of Forgiveness: What the Traditions Teach Us About Letting Go

Without that recognition, “forgiving” may just mean suppressing what is too heavy to face.

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Nature, Noticing and the Lines We Leave Behind: A Conversation with John Muir Laws

Yet Laws is quick to note that wonder doesn’t require distance. “People say, ‘Let’s go to nature,’ then drive five hours. But nature is in the spider in the corner of your apartment. Wonder is all around, all the time. To make life most alive, we must apprehend the daily presentations life gives us. That is the fabric of life itself.”

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