Like any season, the holidays can be a time for rest and contemplation…or a time of trial. We may get a break from work, but what awaits...

The subject of broken things has come up a lot lately. Someone I know broke a piece of art. Someone else broke a promise. Another suffers...

Don Miguel has reminded us often that the mind is a mirror, but it’s good to have that lesson repeated now and then. Let me show you why....

Like me, you’re probably still holding on to odd bits of knowledge from high school. You might still be able bring up names of capitol...

Heat and drought. Fire and flood. Melting polar caps. Rising seas. Pollution and pandemics.…sounds like business as usual in the ongoing...

Independence Day is being celebrated this month in the U.S. Other countries do the same thing for the same reasons. They pay tribute to...

Once, during a Toltec Dreaming workshop many years ago, don Miguel asked his students (of which I was one) to stand in front of a mirror....

Parents sometimes ask me how they can impart this teaching to their children. Don Miguel has often been asked the same question. Every...

Many years ago, I had a friend who was a big part of my life and my family’s life. One day, however, she decided not to be my friend...

A friend once spoke to me about constantly having to push a certain memory away, because it caused him so much emotional pain. He wanted...

Rumi, the Sufi poet, once told a story about a guy who worked for years as a tanner. His job was to soften rawhide, using manure to turn...

I’ve been giving some thought lately to where we can go when we’re not “allowed” to go anywhere. You could say this is the same message...