Can I Get a Witness?
How journaling has given me the clarity I need when shit comes up. by Matthew Sloane I remember once being really pissed off at someone who left their car blocking the exit from my carport one day. The anger was welling up inside me and quickly turned to rage. I then became afraid of myself, of what I might do. Afraid that I could not control this fire inside me and I might hurt someone,…over a parking space. I never confronted...
Poetry: The 16th Quartet: Yes! Yes! Yes!
Rob Grotke says: So simple and effortless, the way it is said, from Papaji: “Being is always shining; I am is the light of being. This Diamond cannot hide, and can never be hidden. When there is no mind the face shines with beauty and innocence. Just simply be quiet. Just be who you are.” Rob Grotke says: In keeping with the theme of your poems. from Adyashanti: “Isn’t it time to stop loving and hating the...
I Never Knew Tears Could Feel So Good by Nirmala
I never knew tears could feel so good until I opened my heart and found they come from the same source as boundless laughter instead of blurring my vision they bring beauty into focus instead of burning my cheeks they … Continue reading →
A Disappointing Night Out
It seems to me that a good restaurant that asks high prices for its fare should want to maintain its reputation, for both the quality of its food and the graciousness of its service.
What Do Men Want? Why Not Just Ask Them?
by Earl Hipp What a wonderfully simple idea! Why don’t we just ask men what they want? That is what a couple of good men decided to do using the Twitter platform. From that powerful intention, an unusual and global chain of events has transpired to allow this very masculine seedpod of feelings, hungers, and dreams to be opened into the world. As the story goes, UK based Tony Martin had the very creative idea of starting a “male...
Amazing lecture by Jacqueline Novogratz
I was very inspired by this incredible TED talk by Jacqueline Novogratz. Not only is she a wonderful, heart-open and humble woman deeply in tune with humanity’s challenges, but she has the visionary insight that male depression is related to female suffering. It’s so common today to think that men make women suffer because we […]
Run / Breathe / Bless
Last week was a blur: a good blur. It felt like a marathon, but in reality – an audition, a costume fitting, a meeting for a “big” TV job were among the highlights. Every item (especially the job meeting) required massive preparation:…
The Story Behind the Story
As leaders, it’s often our job to evaluate the work of those that we lead. In the midst of all to-dos on the list, it’s easy to default to a “one size fits all’ method of evaluation. You’re busy. It’s easy to lead on auto-pilot, using the methods that are familiar. When you’re coaching and […]
Eating Our Own Shadow
by Rick Borutta Let’s say that if you are reading this essay then at some point in your life a mirror was held up to you by another person and you were told to take a good look at yourself. So you did, and you noticed that darker side of your reflection – your shadow. Now that you are aware that this shadow is a part of you in all that you do, what do you do with it? Turn it into gold? Perhaps. But what exactly does that mean?...
Looking for Insight on Being a Man in Today’s World?
When Matthew Sloane tired to find resources for guys in his local bookstore, he got very little help from browsing the shelves, and what he found all revolved around one predicable topic. FORTUNATELY FOR US, There are plenty of great resources for men that have been published recently. The ManKind Project Journal is proud to offer our own list of Best Men’s Books compiled by New Warrior Ryan Stanga. Matthew’s bookstore...
A vendetta against email
Over at Harvard Business Review, Alexandra Samuel declares a vendetta against email. Specifically, she makes a few very salient points: “The better I get at filtering and managing my email, the more convinced I am that email overload may be an intractable problem.” Why is that? “If you’re getting 10 emails a day, that seems […]
You Have No Idea Who You Are
Recently, I watched the movie Crash. This was my fourth or fifth viewing of the film and it continues to impress me in its ability to emotionally engage me and to illuminate threads of my own prejudice and bigotry. What … Continue reading →
Phenomenal
As I’ve said, I’m a sucker when it comes to California Light/Space art. I arrived in California in 1968, when the movement was still at its height.
Successful Completion of the Seiler School in Ethiopia
An update from Peter Seiler It’s been five years since the death of my uncle, but I have finally created the school he requested in his last will and testament. The Ella and Wolfgang Seiler School has been built in the tribal area of the Hamar in South Omo Ethiopia. Actual building time was only half a year, and it is the first earth bag based building in Ethiopia. The Governor of the state, Ato Awoke, visited it during its...
Action Creates Action
This year I’m in the writers mentoring program at CBS, a networking program for people of color trying to break into the TV writing business. Prior to being in the program, my manager suggested I apply – and at the time I had resistance to …
Laughter is the Best Medicine
Want to connect with someone? Make ‘em laugh. Want to build relationship fast? Make ‘em laugh. Want to get someone to follow your lead? Make ‘em laugh. Laughter works at a deeper level than words. It connects people at the emotional level. My friend Bruce was recently driving a van from New England […]
What’s Up With Men, Anyway?
I was just reading a post on Facecrack that a dear friend of mine asked for some men to offer feedback on. It was concerning an article she’d seen on a website discussing the differences between men and women, and how those differences made relationships challenging. The author was basically contending (and I’m in […]
The Daimon of Mission
by Stephen Simmer “Before you embark on any path ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path. The trouble is nobody asks the question; and when a man finally realizes that he has taken a path without a heart, the path is ready to kill him. At that point very few men can stop to deliberate, and leave the path. A path without a heart is never...
Lay Priest: Perspectives; a poem
For: Michael Rice Perspectives; yours…mine… out of shadowland we grasp at pin pricks of light, claim a dogma; disclaim another’s…judging… Within our perspective we judge. With other brothers, we sought our limits illumined by the midnight sun, we probed community to its nexus…in an individual’s dance within his shadows… Fears and tears, hysteria and laughter the pulse particularly deep,...
The Calisthenics of Love
Dmitri Bilgere sends us this video from his new blog on the three parts to discover and the three skills to master when it comes to the art of loving. You can also read a transcription of the video at Dmitri’s website: Live the Life You Long For As a 1-on-1 coach, workshop leader, and writer, I help people care for their hearts so they are able to take the daily, excellent actions that move them toward the life they long for....
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