Wisdom doesn’t produce pronouncements, it produces better attention, better questions, and better conversations.
She Was Afraid That Every Choice Would Ruin Her Life
“I feel as if there’s a right life for me,” she said, “and I’m going to miss it.”
“I feel as if there’s a right life for me,” she said, “and I’m going to miss it.”
Helping the Whole Person
Human beings don't specialize.
Human beings don’t specialize.
When Your Life Looks Fine but Feels Wrong
I don’t want to do this anymore.
I don’t want to do this anymore.
What If People Need a Different Kind of Help?
Part of wisdom is knowing what sort of help a situation requires and recognizing the limits of one's own role.
Part of wisdom is knowing what sort of help a situation requires and recognizing the limits of one’s own role.
Productive and Unproductive Obsessions
You don’t want to obsess about your neighbor’s untidy lawn, but you certainly do want to obsess about your own creative ideas.
You don’t want to obsess about your neighbor’s untidy lawn, but you certainly do want to obsess about your own creative ideas.
The Garden She Almost Didn’t Plant
Beauty is often misunderstood.
Beauty is often misunderstood.
Creativity, Meaning and Addiction
The bound creator becomes devoted to his addiction and loses his ability to live authentically.
The bound creator becomes devoted to his addiction and loses his ability to live authentically.
Saturday Mornings at the Laundry
Families are not sustained by love alone.
Families are not sustained by love alone.
I Can’t Get No Satisfaction
Individuality adds to your risk for addiction—and so does suppressed individuality.
Individuality adds to your risk for addiction—and so does suppressed individuality.
The Promotion She Had Wanted
She stopped assuming that achievement and meaning were identical.
She stopped assuming that achievement and meaning were identical.
Individuality and Addiction
Extra energy and greater appetite often lead to conditions like addiction, mania and insatiability.
Extra energy and greater appetite often lead to conditions like addiction, mania and insatiability.
The Tuesday Morning Nobody Needed Him
What am I here for today?
What am I here for today?
The Happy Bondage of Addiction
What you experience as you talk to an addicted individual is that he or she is completely indifferent to your good arguments.
What you experience as you talk to an addicted individual is that he or she is completely indifferent to your good arguments.
Understanding Your Emotional Landscape
Every emotion signals something about your experience.
Every emotion signals something about your experience.
When Success Doesn’t Feel Like Success
The anxiety changes its subject, but rarely its essential character.
The anxiety changes its subject, but rarely its essential character.