photo cred: Rasheed Kemy, Unsplash We are addicted. We are attached. According to Ian Morgan Cron: "None of us has only one addiction; we are boiling cauldrons of addictions." Brene Brown: "We are the most addicted and medicated adult cohort in US history." Anne Lamott: "Getting all of our addictions under control is a little like putting an octopus to bed." Addictions are spiritual workarounds, a substance or strategy used to distract us or numb us from pain and to fulfill

The Lies of Ego/Identity attributed to the writing of Henri Nouwen. We have so identified with our ego/false self that it's often quite a freeing revelation to learn that what we have, what we do, and what others think/say about us is only our small "s" self and not our truest capital "S" Self. For most of my years, even deep into my faith life, I believed I was the collection of my thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. My personality was me. What a life altering experience t

We’re at a place of polarization in the United States where it might serve us well to go to ego school to objectively and nonjudgmentally see how ego structures itself, strengthens, and enlarges. Eckhart Tolle, in his book, A New Earth , has an excellent description of ego, and I reference his teaching below. Every memory, interpretation, opinion, viewpoint, reaction, emotion is part of the egoic mind. The ego is a bundle of thoughts and emotions and memories we identify wi

“If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.” A Wrinkle in Time ...