An Impulse to Something Greater

The Call signifies signifies death and rebirth, the death of our old self or old life and the rebirth of the new. We tend to think of the Call only as a call to rebirth, but it is also the end that allows the beginning. In his seminal book on the hero’s journey, The Hero […]

The Parable of the Raft

On life’s journeys, we use “rafts” to carry us from one point to the next. In this parable, Buddha tells us that carrying these “rafts” after they have served their purpose ties us to our past rather than opening our future. Buddha once told his disciples the story of a man who is trapped on […]