Flexibility and Yielding Are Essential Aspects of Life — Stiffness and Resistance Lead to Decay and Death
When we yield to what appears to be blocking our way, we will find a way through.
Magnetic Metaphors: Understanding Gender and Identity Politics Through the Polarity of Magnetism
In the fight for diversity and inclusion, we are butting heads by forcing the same energy of anger, dominance, and superiority against our opponents.
The Way of Leadership Is Never a Straight Path — Especially if You’re Queer
Over the last few weeks, I’ve written a several posts investigating the qualities and characteristics of ethical and human-heartedness
From Attack to Empathy: Practicing Humility and Impartial Witnessing on Social Media
All social transformation starts with personal transformation.
Polarization Creates a Dangerous Illusion that Disconnects Us from Our Shared Humanity
Both online and in the real world, there is too much emphasis on the need to be right and belong
What Is Gender Ideology? The False Belief That There Are Only 2 Genders.
This is what ideological dogmatism looks like; everything is the same, can only happen in one way, and is vigorously policed.
To Understand the Concept of ‘Good,’ We Must Accept the Mutually Arising Polarity of ‘Bad’.
Conscientious humane action requires that we navigate the space in-between what is ‘good and bad’ to minimize harm caused to others by remaining too long at unnatural extremes.
What Does It Mean to Be a Virtuous Person and How Is that Different From a Person of Good Character?
We live in a social media age where morality and ethics are demonstrated as virtue-signalling memes or thumbs-up emoticons — often
What Is the Distinction Between Values and Virtues? One Leads to Deliberate and Thoughtful Action
Practicing the virtues expressed in the Tao Te Ching is not for appearances, recognition, or validation.
These are actions that
There Is a Space Between the Binary Labels of Male and Female that Connects Us All as Human Beings
We are all worthy of dignity and freedom of self-expression.
In 2005, I bought my first translation of the Tao
