Heart & Soul Blog

We all shop, but why? We shop because we need things. But mostly, we shop because we want things. But not just things. We also want experiences. We shop to obtain things that will ready us for certain events and situations, and we shop to create certain experiences and feelings. Often the things we buy are just symbols for what we want to experience and who we are inside.

 

I go through periods where my shopping is really frantic. It…

Being or feeling betrayed really sucks. It’s just one of those feelings that rocks both our inner and outer world. The shock of thinking we know the person, and so by extension ourselves – and discovering that we don’t – is enough to make us question everything. And worse than being worked over is that we then second-guess ourselves. So nothing seems secure in the world. We feel we can’t or shouldn’t trust again. We perhaps even retal…

When I headed out to meet Lama Jinpa for our regular Tuesday meeting it was a cold teaser of a morning, with the sun trying to get through the hazy clouds after a weeklong storm spell. When LJ greeted me at the threshold of his office, I noticed he was wearing all black and a lot more hair than this time last year. It didn’t take me long, either, to sense a certain impatience about him – something I likened to crabbiness and he equated to edginess - the difference between the tw…