Creating a Beautiful Mind, Part 2

There are few practices I know as effective at creating a beautiful mind as gratitude. Instant ego dissolution, instant unclenching, instant humility, instant peace. When we remember to remove ourselves from the glaring spotlight of our own incessant self-concern and...

Creating a Beautiful Mind, Part 1

Poet David Whyte frequently refers to the phenomena of “creating a beautiful mind.” Recently, I’ve begun contemplating this process more intentionally. What exactly does it mean to create a beautiful mind? What is a beautiful mind? And why might it be important to...

Promise

Note: Some of my essays are modeled after the work of one of my teachers and inspirations, the poet David Whyte. In his book Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words, each chapter is a deep treatise and meditation on a particular...