I recently went through a situation where being ignorant of one’s inner reality – various assumptions, lenses, chemical states, and such – was highly antagonistic to an otherwise incredible connection. It made me sad that two deeply connected people got trapped in the swirl of illusion and couldn’t find each other through the mess of it all.

There is so much talk about finding your purpose. The general idea is that you will feel truly fulfilled when you find your purpose. Unfortunately, finding your purpose is often obscured by a general misunderstanding of what purpose is.

Without an accurate understanding of what purpose is you can go on a wild goose chase – trying thing after thing after thing trying to find what it is you are “supposed” to do.

I woke up this morning thinking about the notion of giving and receiving. It seems pretty imperative that we have an equal balance of both capacities. If not, here is what I think happens:

If you are a really good giver – if that is your “role” or your comfort zone, then an imbalance can exist where it becomes very difficult to receive.

And if you are a really good receiver – if that is your role or comfort zone – then an imbalance can exist where it becomes very difficult to give.

We’ve all heard about the need for healthy boundaries. But there seems to be a lot of confusion as to what, exactly, healthy boundaries are. I think a lot of us confuse boundaries with barriers and then create walls around the heart.

I looked up the definition of community this morning. Found that it comes from the root word “common” or “shared by all or many”.

This hit me. I thought “well no wonder we don’t have much community anymore – we have emphasized individuality so much that we have individualized ourselves away from it!”