I was reminded of this letter today as I was responding to an email from a wonderful new friend. I decided to share it with her and ended up rereading it myself. I cannot remember when I wrote this letter, but it must have been at least ten years ago. Reading it today brought […]
We humans come to almost every encounter or situation with expectations of how it should be. This “should” runs our lives and is one of the major sources of our suffering. It is hard for us to be with what is; we want things to be the way we want them to be. We use […]
I recently came across this letter I wrote many years ago and think this is a good time to share it. Dear Kind Soul, It was a striking, sunny, spring Sunday afternoon. The air was crisp and dry. A light wind was softly brushing by the sea of people milling about on the steps of […]
It all began innocently when I was four and a half years old. We had just moved from our one room dilapidated apartment in south Tel Aviv to a new, larger apartment in the northern part of the city. Full of excitement, having not seen my grandparents since our move, I got on the bus […]
It happens every Friday night. My family comes together to bring in the Shabbat with a festive, delicious meal. Shabbat, which literally means to quit or to stop in Hebrew, is the day of rest in the Jewish tradition. It begins at sundown, Friday and ends at sundown, Saturday. It is one of the […]
Is life good? In other words, is living a worthwhile experience? Does it have any value, meaning? Most people are not sure whether it is or not. Until you have a clear answer to this question, you cannot really create a spiritually inspired future for yourself or people around you. Choosing to affirm life, to […]
In a prior blog I discussed my fear of bees and how I overcame it when I realized that I was exposing my son, Leor, to my fear. I developed this fear because I saw my sister’s terrified reaction to getting stung by a bee. The curious thing is that I developed that fear vicariously […]
I. Listening vs. Lecturing Children, like most of us, don’t like to be lectured. When a child does something “wrong,” the last thing he wants is to hear his parents’ authoritative voice rambling about his mistake. Children will naturally shut out their parents when they are lecturing to them. A child will respond positively to […]
In keeping with the many requests I have received to share my transformational work more broadly, I am starting a bi-mothly gathering, Happy Ours. If you are in town and would like to join us, here is the invite: Happy Ours is a fantastic, transformational two hour after-work gathering. It is an evening of having […]
Here is link to a video which blew me away. Aside from the fact that it is absolutely one of the most brilliant things I have seen in a long time, its message is mine verbatim: We need to understand how we are wired and rewire ourselves so that we can have an “Empathic Civilization.” […]
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