You know you’ve found your life’s calling when what others find infuriating and odious about a task is precisely what you find fascinating and compelling. When the work’s complexities fire your imagination and its contradictions keep you awake at night pondering its solution, then you know you are on the scent of your calling and…

We talk as though there is only one self within when there is, in fact, a committee of personalities living within each of us. The members of your internal committee represent different parts of yourself, competing sides of your personality, a multiplicity of inner voices sometimes clamouring for expression. “I keep a journal,” a writer…

If you are working on the job that you are for the money and all that having money promises, then don’t be surprised when you discover that money does not do all the things it promises to do. It’s time to rethink work. It’s certainly time to redefine what we mean by success. There comes…

Anyone who has ever surrendered her or his body to the hands of a capable masseuse knows that the very word “massage” is an inappropriate word for what takes place on the massage table. “Listening to the body” is the better way to describe the experience. A masseuse touches your body, and every place she…

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