Most of us are so busy living our lives - often feeling as if we can barely keep our heads above water - that there is little if any time left for contemplating what matters most: ourselves. Which is a tragedy, really, because there is a growing body of research demonstrating that self-awareness - and[...]

In the beginning was the word. And ever since there have been so many words. Our world drowns in words. So too does our inner world. Words, words, words. How many spoken, shared, loved, fought over? More words than atoms in the universe maybe? And in the end, what do all those words signify? Nothing.[...]

Seek and ye shall find. When the student is ready the teacher will appear. I will go before you and make the crooked places straight. What all of these statements (and countless others) point to - at least to me - is this: seek God and God will ensure you find It. What I've found[...]

There are two well-known psychological phenomena that illustrate just how difficult it is for humans to properly understand themselves and the world around them: confirmation bias and its cousin, the backfire effect. Confirmation bias speaks to our habit of cherrypicking information that supports our previously held beliefs and rejecting any evidence that runs counter to[...]