Every year during the holiday season, I get emails from readers who are interested in purchasing one of my books for a friend or relative, but are not sure which one to pick. This year, I thought I’d take the opportunity to describe the differences, so you can decide for …
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The next Not So Big Life Workshop will take place August 29 – 31, 2024, online via Zoom. This workshop is open to everyone, and will be an introduction to what Not So Big Living is all about. By the end, participants will be newly equipped with a set of …
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As we cautiously re-emerge from the pandemic, after a year of social distancing and associated dramatic shifts in our everyday patterns of living, we are being given an unusual perspective on how our lives are constructed. Things that we didn’t even think about pre-pandemic—like going out to eat inside a …
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Twice a year, I am one of thirty students who participate in a six-day spiritual retreat (or Intensive, as we call it) that involves almost continuous engagement and interaction, from early in the morning until late at night. For most of us, these Intensives are the high points of our …
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If you’ve read The Not So Big Life, you’ll know the influence that Normandi Ellis, author of Awakening Osiris and Dreams of Isis, has had upon my life. Twenty-four years ago, Normandi introduced me to the Year End Review process. I wrote about the transformative nature of first meeting her, …
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All of us have dreams for ourselves and our lives, but sadly most of us don’t live them because we never take the time to listen, and never pay full attention to what our hearts long to do. That’s why I wrote The Not So Big Life, to help people …
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(Note: This post was originally written in May of 2012, but although my current life is not presenting the same issues, the concepts delineated are as relevant in this moment as they were seven years ago.) There are certain key concepts involved in Not So Big Living that I want to …
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It’s no picnic to be a perfectionist. It can mean making yourself (and others around you) miserable with constant judgment, correction and impossible standards. But there are ways to begin to see through it. In order to learn something new, something beyond the beliefs and dictates of the personality (the …
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In Chapter Six of The Not So Big Life I explain a different way of looking at everything in your life, by seeing all of it as a kind of reflection that’s showing you to you. All that happens to you and all the people who are a part of your …
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I want to set the stage for this important understanding with a powerful, if disturbing, Sufi teaching story that lays the ground work for appreciating what both our dreams and our everyday life experiences can teach us. Here’s the story, taken from In Search of the Miraculous, by P.D. Ouspensky, …
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