ego

A rock. A single rock. Not a rock garden. Not a slick rock. Not a rock wall. Not even a big rock. Just one rock, the size of a shoe box, right in the middle of…

Look, it doesn't matter, and I like it that way. You try something. You fail. You try again. At my age, they're not handing out a lot of trophies, and even if…

Someone smart once said to me that self-deprecation and an outsize sense of responsibility were expressions of ego. Just as one who always sees themselves as…

Blankening is the process by which hard physical effort erases your psycho-emotional mind. It’s a word I just made up and possibly the title of my #1…

I am stained, between the ears. It's a god-awful mess. There is ego everywhere and ego's terrible counterweights, self-doubt, fear, and insecurity. It's like…

TCI Friday works best when you participate. Read. Ponder. Give your two cents. Or three. One of the goals of meditation is to gain some distance from your…

All of us live a life constructed of stories. In most of those stories, we will cast ourselves as the hero or the victim, occasionally as the villain. This has…

If you read the last TCI Friday, you will know that I had an unfortunate and entirely avoidable conflict with a runner, who turned out to be my neighbor. I…