What Are You Willing to Risk?
Part of our work is to make polite bigotry socially unacceptable.
We must risk discomfort and decorum to confront bias in the moment...
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Aug 23, 2020
Follow the Yellow Brick Road
Here's the yellow brick road to a full heart:
experience >> wisdom >> confidence >> gratitude >> humility >> generosity
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Aug 18, 2020
Just Let Go
Let's relinquish our illusions of control, and allow our hearts to be effortlessly drawn to what we truly need.
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Aug 6, 2020
My Wish for You
I wasted so much time, not realizing that those things I hated most about myself were what others loved, and even desired...
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Jul 20, 2020
Where to Find the Richness of Life
Life's richness resides beyond the limits of rightness and wrongness.
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Jun 18, 2020
Wasted Time
I wasted so many years hating the very parts of me that others were trying to love.
If we want to experience the richness of life...
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Jun 10, 2020
What do you require of your loved ones?
For instance, if you have experienced bigotry at the hands of your family, have you ever looked them in the eyes and lovingly asked them...
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May 7, 2020
What is "Equanimity?"
Equanimity is that state of openness to our heart's desires, without ambition or aversion.
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May 2, 2020
Empathy Cannot Be Rushed
Empathy requires that we meet each other where we actually are, instead of flipping on life’s light switches.
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Apr 20, 2020
We Are Needed
Gay men have long known what it has meant to die alone. Suffering in silence, cast out of our communities, left to the mercy of...
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Apr 20, 2020
What Needs Tending?
If you’re feeling overwhelmed, try asking yourself this: just what in your life truly needs tending today, in order for you to feel...
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Apr 20, 2020
How to Survive a Plague
For nearly forty years, gay men have demonstrated how to survive a plague with grace and dignity...
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Apr 20, 2020
Boredom is a Painful Peace
Those of us with the luxury and courage to sit with our boredom will soon learn it is one of the pillars of creativity.
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Apr 20, 2020
Taking Just Enough
One thing is clear, now more than ever: if each of us took just a little less, we would all have a whole lot more.
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Apr 20, 2020
I Know This Much Is True...
Even with all the knowledge that we have amassed over the years, there's no greater wisdom than kindness.
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Apr 20, 2020
What the World Needs Now
In a moment that requires physical distancing, what we also need is radical togetherness.
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