Toward a World that Works for Everyone
You’ve heard me speak a lot about the hridayam, heart aperture, or heart’s door. (1) It’s usually shut, but, in a fourth-chakra heart opening, the hridayam opens like a camera lens’ aperture. And then, after a spell, it gradually closes again. It leaves you with access to the love in our heart but […]
I think that, as a society, we may need to let go of our fascination with extremes. Well, all but one, which I’ll get to later. Extreme sports. Extreme fashions. Extreme views, whatever they are. What we’re looking for doesn’t live in the extremes. It makes itself absent from there. Just disappears. It […]
I’m getting an idea a day, it seems, on what a good CEO does. Today I got that a good CEO creates space, openings, opportunities. The contribution goes largely unnoticed – in the same way that the contribution of listening also does. An assist is not a goal on the big scoreboard of our social […]
As we contemplate the idea that we’ll need to reintegrate with people who held vastly-different political or medical views than us, if we want to do a clean job of it, then we have to distinguish between two groups of people who opposed us. The first is those who operated on the genuine belief that […]
I’m deeply impressed by Vladmir Putin’s interview with Tucker Carlson. (1) Over and over again, Mr. Putin pointed to Russia’s openness to peace and the West’s rejection of his gestures or overtures. Why neither he nor Tucker is talking about the deep state, I don’t know. But it’s enough for me to have the […]
I’m going to make the most radical statement I’ve ever made and I do so only to get your attention. Here goes: I estimate that 99.99% of people around the world are looking in … the wrong … hmmm…. OK, the least effective place for love. 99.99% of people are seeking love from someone […]
June Meek says: “And then from the 4th, I moved into the 5th and this is when I ‘forgot’ everything that happened in the 3rd. The memories were erased.” (1) OK, stop the camera. How wonderful to have other people’s narratives or ethnographies to compare notes with. What has June done? She says she’s moved […]
