If you didn’t already know it, we Sufis are attached to paradox. You know, things like “neediness is the doorway to abundance” and “you have to be small to be big” and those kinds of things.
We made those up ourselves, we’re not just copying the whole Buddhist Zen koan thing, I promise. Paradox must’ve been [...]

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Introduction
It’s the very end of the year, and you might be really excited about 2010. Or you might just be plumb wore out.
We all need a rest, and while I’m taking a bit of an end-of-year break, here’s an article that ran in fall of 2008, but I think it bears a re-read. So have [...]

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You already know that what you do as a business has effects people. Whether it’s jewelry, consulting, coaching, healing, medicine, accounting, cooking, whatever you do, you’ve seen enough moments when your client or patient or customer experiences what you do and something happens. They change. Their heart opens. It’s tremendous.
It’s healing.
So, sure, your business is [...]

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This time of year is often full of extreme busy-ness. Either the crazy busy that comes with trying to tie up all the loose ends from the year, or the anxiousness that swells from trying to get a head start on the next year. Or both.
At the same time, it seems as if something else [...]

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You’ve been blogging, twittering, networking away. Whether online or offline, you’ve been putting the effort into making some connections.
And it’s working. People are starting to comment on your blog, re-tweet your tweets, introduce you at meetings and events as someone to know.
You even start to get noticed by people you admire, others in your field, [...]

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If you follow me at all, then you’ve probably heard me take on the problems that arise from being ambitious, trying to get to the “next level” and other kinds of push. In a heart-centered business, we end up talking a lot about humility, being small, taking bite-sized steps.
Which can seem a little… boring. Maybe [...]

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Three people died after participating in a sweat lodge at a nine thousand dollar “spiritual warrior” retreat led by James Arthur Ray, a self-appointed motivational speaker, who appeared in the law of attraction movie, “The Secret.” The allegations are that a culture of pressure from the leader to “break through limitations” coupled with a poorly [...]

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