Good morning from New York City. What’s on my mind this morning is a great question someone asked me one time. I was thinking about it because it was one of those things – you know, when someone says something to you and you’re like gosh, that is such a great way to think of it or such a great question, and I want to remember that. It becomes part of your own process. Well, this was one of those. Before I talk about it, let me give you some context.

I remember I had received an incredible invitation in Europe and I was having this conundrum about should I go or not. The question was this: are you running towards something or are you running away from something? It caught me a little bit off guard because I was painting this picture of a possible really great thing I could do in Europe. The question brought me back to my heart space and made me start thinking about why I was traveling so much. At the time I was in a long-term relationship, and we were living in a very small space. Yes, things were really good but our lives were intertwined in such a way that I was – I don’t want to say I was losing myself – but I was a little bit losing myself. That’s one of the reasons I love what Kahlil Gibran has to say at the end of his poem on marriage. “And stand together yet not too near together, for the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress tree grow not in each other’s shadow.”

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