Spiritual Director.

Inventor.

Entrepreneur.

Author.

Spiritual Director. Inventor. Entrepreneur. Author.

#themanifesto

People can build lives that are impressive, accomplished, even meaningful—and still sense that there is more of life available to them.

More truth. More depth. More freedom. More capacity to love. More aliveness.

This feeling isn’t necessarily about trying to “fix” your life.

It’s about inhabiting your life more fully.

That’s where my work lives.

The Highest Human Need

Abraham Maslow is best known for describing a progression of human needs: survival, safety, belonging, esteem and, eventually, self-actualization.

Later in his work, he became increasingly interested in something beyond even self-actualization:

self-transcendence.

The movement from building the self to asking what the self is in service of.

This is the territory I love to explore.

Humans have developed many languages for it.

Of the hundreds of theories, traditions and frameworks I’ve encountered over the last decade, I return to a handful again and again—not because any one of them contains the answer, but because each one rearranges the way you see your life.

For example:


Different traditions. Different languages.


All circling an ancient human question:

What does it mean to live a life that is deeply, unmistakably mine—and worthy of the life I have been given?

When you reach this question, the invitation becomes

integrating the totality of what you already know.

Living in accordance with your own house of knowledge.

The wisdom you have earned.

The lessons life has taught you—not just intellectually, but in the deepest parts of you.

The things you know because you have loved.

Because you have lost and because you have won.

Because you have paid attention.

And perhaps most importantly, it is about cultivating a practice of listening to your life.

Deeply. Intimately.

  • Listening to what your body knows.

  • Listening to what no longer fits.

  • Listening to the questions that keep returning.

  • Listening to the people you love.

  • Listening to the sacred.

And through that listening, you cultivate a deeper relationship with your body, your interior life, other people, the world around you and whatever you understand to be larger than yourself.

This is the upper edge of human possibility.

The lifelong practice of becoming fully alive.