I recently sent a text to a spiritual mentor summarizing the latest developments in the challenge I am facing. I was basically asking, “What else can I do to make this get better as quickly as possible?” His response was not what I wanted to hear,...

“To take only what is given, to use it well, to be grateful for the gift, and to reciprocate the gift…” writes Robin Wall Kimmerer, is to live by the “precepts of the Honorable Harvest.” The Honorable Harvest, according to Kimmerer, is “an indigen...

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Acceptance comes easily, even naturally, when we receive good gifts. Imagine a child at Christmastime joyfully accepting the generous gift of a bicycle. The happiness and excitement are difficult for her to contain. She receives the bicycle with o...