We are not here to heal
We sometimes overly center the role of healing in our lives. It's as if we believe the whole point of our life is to heal our emotional wounds, that healing is the end goal. It's not.
Purpose 101 🦋
Reflections on purpose, genius, inner transformation, and social change.
Pain is a path to purpose
Perhaps the most transcendent and highest form of healing our own emotional wounds is to offer to the world what we needed but didn’t get.
Pain is not the enemy
It’s not actually our pain that stands in our way. It’s our wounds that hinder us. It’s our wounds that need to be healed. Our pain is simply the loyal messenger that will keep delivering its message until it is heeded.
You don't have to be goal-oriented
Through our fixation on goals, we become prisoners – to our insatiable appetite for that next high, to external forces beyond our control, and to our need for something external to validate us.
The dual nature of genius
Genius has a dual nature, much like how light acts both as a particle and a wave. It is our unique self and the call of the universe within us.
Harnessing your unique creative power
Our genius might be thought of as our unique creative power. It is creative because it brings new ideas, expressions, or behaviors into being. It is a power because it allows us to shape ourselves and the world.
Embodying your personal values
If passion is the fuel and talent is the vehicle, we might think of our personal values as the compass that orients us in the right direction for our own unique journey.
Living in your zone of genius
We all have passions. We all have talents. And quite often, they overlap. This area of overlap is what we might call our zone of genius.
What is genius?
Genius is not something people are, genius is something people have. Genius is a capacity that every human has. In fact, perhaps it is actually what makes us human.