Dear Friends, May these messages bring you new perspectives, upliftment, and support in your efforts to bring love, trust, and the best of who you are to life and to those around you.
Our Moral Footprint
How we treat others is our most basic responsibility. We are responsible for the impact we have on them: practically, emotionally and spiritually. Every day, every interaction, and even a lack of interaction if this is what we choose, has an effect. (We are all sensitive to being ignored, aren’t we?) That is exactly the footprint we have in this world. If we take this responsibility seriously and commit ourselves to be of benefit to others in every context, we enter the very crux of spiritual life. Considering …
Belonging
To be longing for fulfillment, or to belong? That is the question. Human relationships are fulfilled when we belong to one another. When we know we have each other, when the relationship itself is the solid ground we can stand on, we find home in one another and are fulfilled in our love. To be loved is to belong to someone. Sounds simple, but to fully experience being loved, and to really belong, we need to be given. We cannot have each other if we don’t give ourselves …
Catch People Doing Something Right
Friends, Many of us are wondering what specific things we can do to help move the world in the right direction. Here’s something we all can do to make a difference any day, or every day: Catch people doing something right. Yes, really! Surely, there are plenty of things wrong with this world on both personal and global levels. It’s so easy to criticize things that are a little bit off, or outrageously bad. But focusing primarily on what’s wrong is depressing to everyone. Meanwhile, people do …
Free Stuff!
Friends, Everybody loves free stuff. Getting free stuff is great. Giving free stuff is great too. Who doesn’t like to be Santa? Who doesn’t like to give something to someone and watch them cheer up as a result? To see the smiles on their faces, to see them get a little bit happier, even if just for a moment, because someone gave them something. Free giving is fantastic. Some people like it even more than free getting. The best free stuff to give and get is love, real …
The Love That Makes Waves
Friends, In our heart of hearts there is a blueprint of what a fulfilling life is. If you really feel into it, you can find it, right there, in your heart of hearts. We all yearn for it. Especially when our daily life falls short of what the heart finds satisfying. We are not meant to live in the doldrums. We are meant to live with passion. We awaken to that fullness when we fall in love. Being in love contains the elements of aliveness that all human …
Monogamy, Polyamory, and What It Takes to Be Fulfilled
Marriage used to be an essential part of what most people envisioned as a fulfilling life. But times have changed! These days, getting married is not a given for many people, and even what it means to be married is changing. The freedoms of modern life are giving people the opportunity to experiment with new approaches, but modern culture is pretty clueless about what it really means to be fulfilled, and what it takes to get there. How can people achieve fulfillment without understanding what they’re aiming for? …
David Truman on YouTube: “The Amazing Truth and Purpose of Relationship”
Relationship—we all want it, we all need it, and it kicks our butt. At least, close relationship does. Relationship is so challenging that many people simply give up on relationship, or they avoid the challenge of closeness by keeping their connections casual and superficial. But whenever we sincerely embrace any relationship, even a one-night stand, it challenges us by pulling us out of ourselves, out of our comfort zone, and beyond our personal preferences and plans. In this talk, David Truman explains why relationship is so spiritually important …
How to Love with All Your Heart: Both Universally AND Personally
Love is a necessity of life; it’s our real soul food. Science will never be able to measure how much love, and what kind of love, a human being requires in order to thrive and grow. But scientific methods aren’t needed. Each of us innately feels it when we don’t have the amount and kind of love in our lives we need to feel fulfilled. Even people with intimate partners, loving family members, and a group of good friends may still feel something is lacking in their love …
New YouTube Video: The Inside Track
Dear Friends, When someone speaks, what do you hear… and what do you feel? There are two levels to every interaction. On the surface, we exchange pleasantries and share data with each other. But much more is actually flowing between us. Below the surface are emotional undercurrents of how each of us feels physically, emotionally, and spiritually. This deeper content is rarely mentioned, but if we tune into it, we feel what the other is feeling. We experience what they’re experiencing. When we pay attention on that level, …