A few years ago, a friend said to me, “When you are ready, the teacher will arrive.” “I get it, I get it,” I said. But this past spring, I...
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I've done a lot of seeking in my life. Seeking answers from experts, doctors, therapists, pills, gurus, compulsive travel to far-flung temples and other sacred places, yoga and other spiritual...
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Like yoga and journaling, I think of chanting as a loving knife, a knife that is able to cut through habit and resistance to the soft, beating heart within all...
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Know Your Goals Do you seek to publish your nonfiction book with a traditional publisher? Then you'll want to write a compelling book proposal. To help you get started, I'm...
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I once wrote a feature story for The New York Times Magazine about “the real Indiana Jones.” His name was Gene Savoy, and I met him at a seaside bar...
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As a book writing coach, I’m always on the lookout for new ways to help my clients. I recently watched Bruce Springsteen on Broadway on Netflix. Springsteen’s playing is rousing. His storytelling, more so. But the show’s true gift is watching Springsteen unmask himself. He bashes myths about himself that…
Seeing our planet–the entire misty blue sphere–from outer space changes one’s perspective. Astronauts who’ve experienced this say it’s like a mystical experience. It changed them. They arrived back on Earth in a higher state of consciousness: they saw interconnectedness of everything. The Overview Effect: This big shift in consciousness is…
Sometimes life gets the best of us. Weeks or months pass and we feel stuck in old patterns, old stories. We might look outside ourselves to self-help gurus or heroes for guidance, but our culture is sick, and it offers few real solutions to problems of the heart and soul….
Years ago, I committed to a daily yoga practice after two decades of casual three-days-per-week practice. Within months, I saw tangible results. I became more fit, more flexible, a little happier, a little less reactive, and even more connected to my spiritual self, which I’d abandoned years earlier. All good…