Friends good morning and welcome to Day 14 of the #30daymentalchallenge. As always, join us any time with link in bio. Do you know what would make you happy? I ask because your life may hinge on that question, which belongs to you alone. It seems so simple. But only in...1/8
2/8 appearance. We are conditioned to use words and markers in place of experience. Today choose hard-won experience over concept. Trust your experience. When I was 12-years-old and riddled with anxieties (for which I was hospitalized) I thought to myself: “If I could just go...
3/8 to bed and wake up feeling contented I’d be happy.” (A spiritual teacher I later admired said the same thing.) I no longer feel that way. Much later in life I was flying home from a vacation (save us from vacations) and felt burdened, anxious, and depressed. I got a...
4/8 call from NPR asking me to be on a show the next day about miracles (not your everyday tote-bag liberal topic }:-)). Suddenly my entire gait, mood, and outlook changed. I was happy. Just a sugar high you say? Temporary bauble? Air through the wind chimes? No. Truth...
5/8 It was at that moment that I realized what I was really supposed to be doing in life: public engagement and study (I never do anything unprepared). That amounted to true happiness for me. I tested that thesis for years and found it to be true. But in an instant a divine...
6/8 would’ve taken it from me—would’ve told me it’s the finger pointing at the moon or some such. I say: verify. Hard proof over hallowed principle (which is often not principle at all but the repetition of translated ideas). A historically venerated mystic once said that you...
7/7 discover the “soul”(without defining soul) not by addition but by subtraction. That’s the kind of statement I once would’ve repeated. No longer. You discover your selfhood through a process entirely exclusive to you. “One law for the lion & ox is oppression.” (Blake)...
8/8 Again: what makes you happy? The answer is wholly private. Find out. Test it. The pic is of a Dead Kennedys button on my backpack that got oxidized from my biking in a crazy rain storm. We’re taught to avoid the rain. But that, too, was happy. Wishing you all good things -M-

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