Book Giveaway and Review: The Fire Starter Sessions

Photo by Anastasia Chomlack NOTE: Updated May 5th — We have a winner for the giveaway… thanks to everyone who entered! Stay tuned for another book giveaway on May 15th. Danielle LaPorte is a tantric master. Actually, I don’t know that for a fact. But my experience of reading her new book, The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success... Read More

The Bare Necessities

We’ve spent the past month exploring the idea of a liberation-based livelihood. That’s as about pragmatic as it gets. We all have to live in this world and making a living. So today I am going to confound you. Part of my role here on the LLP to support you with tools for living on this planet in a liberated way, and also to remind you that there is a bigger truth. That can be... Read More

How to Measure Your Freedom — the Liberated Life Quiz

“]Photo by Jonathon Colman http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcolman/ Do you ever wonder what the heck I’m talking about when I use the phrase, “a liberated life”? Just for fun, I’ve come up with this quiz to help you see where you fall on the liberated life spectrum (as defined by moi). The statements themselves will help to illustrate what this concept of “liberated... Read More

Big Wisdom in a Tiny Package: Lori Deschene Interview and Tiny Buddha Book Giveaway

Freedom means waking up and deciding to do something today, with exactly what you have, for your happiness. ~Lori Deschene JAN 10 NOTE: A winner has been chosen for the book giveaway — thanks to everyone who entered! I am very happy to start this new year with a special guest: Lori Deschene, creator of the Tiny Buddha website and now author of the new book Tiny Buddha: Simple... Read More

How to Do a Reflection and Intention Process for the End of the Year

Photo by McKay Savage (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mckaysavage/) Last year I published this post at the end of December. Many people seemed to appreciate the process I offered. Since there are many new members of “Team Liberation” I thought I’d share it again. And — I’ll be taking these next two weeks off from blogging to focus on writing my thesis... Read More

Readers’ Forum: Where Have You Found Freedom This Year?

Photo by Exfordy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/exfordy/ Here’s what I know to be true – a liberated life includes a healthy dose of reflection. We’re entering the perfect time of year to look in the rear view mirror, with days growing shorter and colder for most of us. (Well, not those of you in the Southern Hemisphere!) So as we head into this last month of the year, I invite... Read More

How to Live Life

I believe that discipline is something that creates the conditions for liberation… that’s one of those paradoxical truths that seem to populate life. My discipline has been to hold myself accountable for having a writing practice and sharing the fruits of that practice with you here on this blog every Tuesday. I missed last week. I was flying home from Boston that day,... Read More

7 Ways to Practice Micro-Peacework

Photo by McKay Savage: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mckaysavage/ The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence…. The frenzy of the activist... Read More