Any kind of work that demands specialized skills–any trade, craft, or art–can only be acquired slowly, in small increments. It typically requires ten or more years of training and practice before a sufficient degree of mastery is achieved in any worthwhile field, although there are many exceptions to this norm. These years of learning as a…
Marriage is a social institution and a cultural practice that brings together two individuals–traditionally a man and a woman–and somehow joins them. This phenomenon of joining two human beings results in a wide variety of interesting effects and consequences. I propose to examine one aspect of these effects and consequences by asking the following question: What…
Acceptance, then, is only another word for our alignment with reality, which, in turn, is simply another word for God. There are two inter-related obstacles to our practice of full acceptance: (1) lack of vigilance or present moment attentiveness, and (2) confusing reality with our judgments about it. The first is the result of being…