Cycles of Change

A monk once asked his teacher how to overcome fear in the marketplace. The teacher replied, "Show me the coin you hold when your hand is empty." This koan invites us to look closer at what we think we possess. It challenges the basic assumption that [...]

Millions of spiritual transactions occur every single day under a logical fallacy. This unstated logic governs prayers, donations, and volunteer hours with a mechanical precision. The premise is simple. An individual provides an input, and the [...]

The Machines Are Here The future arrived quietly in 2025. Robots that walk, grasp, and learn now cost less than a used car. Factories in China deploy thousands of mechanical workers. Warehouses hum with steel hands sorting packages. The price [...]

You have probably noticed something strange. Your feed overflows with people selling transformation: ten-day challenges, miracle morning routines, courses promising to unlock your purpose, influencers who seem to have it all figured out. Meanwhile, [...]

A child stands alone at the edge of the playground while classmates whisper and point. Decades later, that same pattern emerges in a conference room where colleagues exclude a coworker from lunch invitations and undermine their contributions in [...]

In our fast-moving digital world, information flows like a mighty river with countless tributaries. Some streams carry crystal-clear truth, while others muddy the waters with half-truths and distortions. Young people today possess an incredible [...]

America is breaking apart. Adults scream at each other on social media. Politicians attack instead of solving problems. Families split over politics. Communities divide into hostile camps. Violence keeps getting worse. Here is the uncomfortable [...]

Life unfolds like a masterpiece painting, each brushstroke representing a choice, each color symbolizing an experience that shapes who we become. Within this beautiful complexity lies a profound truth: our journey toward wisdom follows predictable [...]

The reasonable voices who recognize that our children need better tools for navigating disagreement must now address the complete picture. Teaching kids to ask "why" before judging others represents a crucial first step toward healing our divided [...]

You turn on the news, scroll through social media, or listen to political commentary, and within minutes you feel angry, frustrated, or hopeless about the state of our country. Your blood pressure rises. You want to argue with someone. You feel like [...]

America stands at the precipice of collapse. The 250-year experiment in democratic self-governance teeters on the edge of failure, not from foreign invasion or natural disaster, but from an enemy within: the complete inability of citizens to engage [...]

We teach children that violence never solves problems while adults engage in campaigns to destroy their political enemies. We demand kids show respect while we dehumanize half the country. We wonder why young people turn to extreme solutions when we [...]