Problems only ever exist at the edge of our own ability to see something new, but our capacity for newness is infinite. It looks to me, that helping people understand what that edge is, and what moves us past it into the new, is where all the solutions reside.

Just writing that title cracks me up. A few years ago there is no way that thought would have even popped into my mind. Tony Robbins is a master coach who has decades of experience, has worked with thousands and thousands of people (probably millions at this point?), and is regarded by most in the coaching world as the guy at the top of the upper echelon. What could I possibly have to offer someone like him?

Well, technically nothing, but also possibly everything.

... Our connection is not a concept or an idea, so it cannot be lost when her mind loses the ability to hold thoughts.

At it’s core, at it’s essence, at it’s source, life is always beautiful, and that beauty is always free. The trick is you have to look past the surface level of your human emotions, past the content.

"Understanding is spiritual," my mentor said once. I remember my eyes got huge and my jaw dropped as my brain said, "Well shit. That's true, isn't it?"

Understanding is not knowledge. It is not information. It is not processed by the intellect, but rather recognized by something deeper within us.

Have you ever had a dream where someone you know is really mean to you, or does something really bad, and then you wake up from the dream, but for a while you're still hurt or mad with that person? Like, even though it was a dream, for a while it still felt real, so you are still upset?

And then, I looked at my whiskey glass on the counter, and saw something deeper about life…