Taking the ego out of the teaching
“Ego isn’t who you are, it’s how you are.” – Jed McKenna Hey, welcome back 🙂 Last week, I made a comment that set off a surprising number of questions…
The simple cure for doubt and fear
“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.” – Warren Buffett Keeping with this week’s theme of entrepreneurship, one more quick story from…
Why most people should not be entrepreneurs
“Running a start-up is like chewing glass and staring into the abyss. After a while, you stop staring, but the glass chewing never ends.” – Elon Musk I’m giving a…
How to measure your level of inner development
“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the big problems we face as practitioners of the inner…
The safe path is the risky path
“You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”― Jim Carrey True story: Jim Carrey’s father wanted to…
The path to total inner freedom
“We are not donkeys meant to be weighed down by burden. We are eagles, meant to fly.” – Reggie Ray Hey, how’s your week going so far? I just finished…
Mastery, relationships, and an announcement
On the other side of today’s lesson, I’m going to make an announcement. If you’ve been reading these emails every day, please stay tuned for it. (if you just read…
A simple formula for being happy
“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than the mastery of oneself.” – Leonardo Da Vinci I just finished a great little show on Netflix called “Love”. (not recommended…
What’s the “point” of spirituality?
“Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And it does not render the self…