Longing and desire and surrender are often misunderstood or taken in a bad light. But there are longings that are built into us, and there are ways of surrendering that result in our greatest good.

This week, we'll consider longing and surrender through the lens of nature, and then go deeper as we look into ourselves.

What can we effectively do when we find ourselves feeling overwhelmed by the intensity of everything that’s happening in the world and the intensity of things around us?

Join me this week as we consider some heartful and realistic answers to Leo Tolstoy’s timeless question, “What then must we do?” As you’re about to hear, you have many more options than you may have been telling yourself.

The job of good script writer is to move the characters and the action forward in effective, compelling, and dramatic ways. As our own mental script writers, we are constantly writing and narrating the lives we live.

Join me this week as we consider ways of making the scripts we write more effective and much more useful.

Just how relevant are joy and delight to the ways we live our lives? I'll make the case that they’re neither negotiable nor frivolous, but altogether necessary to living well.

Join me this week as we consider ways of searching for joy and delight and cultivating the habit of taking them into our lives.

This week, we pause and take the time we need to step away from all of our doing so that we can remember who and what we truly are as we let go of a number of things that don’t serve us, and never have.

Join me as I share a simple and marvelously effective way of slowing down and coming to rest inside. Join me as we “Follow the Pearl” and come home to ourselves again.

This episode is my one hundredth Beautiful Question podcast. In preparing it, I looked back at the previous ninety-nine, noticing the themes and questions that came from them.

Join me this week as we consider seven of the most consistent themes and three thought-provoking questions about each of them.

We know that our seeming separation from one another is nothing more than an illusion of thought and habit. Yet, how often that separation exists to our own peril and the peril or dismissal of others. This week, we look at the nature of our true inter-connectedness and at what happens when we intentionally engage with that awareness in the front of our thinking.

Join me as we consider building life-saving bridges between us.

This week’s podcast finds me back in contemplative retreat in a remote place in New Mexico, where I am considering some of the deepest questions anyone can ask.

Join me this week as I once again share the questions, and leave you to consider your own answers, answers that can change the quality of your life.

What does it mean to really listen? For that matter, what does it mean to truly hear, and what’s the difference between the two?

Join me this week as we tune into to the world around us and to ourselves. We’ll start by taking a walk through the streets of Manhattan.

In this week’s podcast, I'll share a story with you for no other reason than for each of us to enjoy it. I wonder what stories are in you, waiting to reveal themselves to you, waiting be told and shared.

Join me this week as we meet a small boy who steps out of time and then back again.