Time and Chance

Don’t assume, because you have experienced poverty or marginalization of some sort, that you are automatically above inflicting the same sort of oppression that…

It is not the act of wounding you that qualifies somebody as your friend; rather it is the quality of being your friend that…

In our world, name-calling and labeling is often a shortcut substitute for the hard labor of moral reasoning. You can quickly find yourself on…

As much as we might wish this was not the case, and plead the contrary, we conduct all our relationships within a transactional frame.

When we enlist the pursuit of wisdom to strive for an optimal outcome, what we are seeking is to align our own thinking as…

Addiction is a short-term escape from pain that is purchased at a high interest rate of future pain.

The key to understanding and disarming our greed is digging a little bit deeper. Why do you want more money? What is it that…

If you want to endure, it really means, for the realist, that you want your words to endure. We want our words to carry…

The weird, and sometimes maddening truth about gifts is that some of their inherent value is the inconvenience itself.

You don’t try to “walk alongside” the enraged momma bear, trying to calm her down, redirect her, or help her see reason. You get…