Ego as a path to the holy

77% Weekly Newsletter

 Jalaja Bonheim is an acquaintance of mine. She is a healer, a holy-woman.
I was honored to get an advance copy of her latest book, The Sacred Ego: Making Peace with Ourselves and Our World. The book was released to the public on August 11. It is fabulous. In the opening chapters alone, she introduced an idea that has changed my thinking – she talks about how we ought to be living from the heart as opposed to just from the mind.
She and I are trying to figure out a way for her to be able to join me for a ROTB web-lecture about her notion that our egos are not a detriment to the holy, but a path!

Anyone who purchases the book ​in the next few days will receive ​a free download of one of ​Jalaja’s

Click to purchase:
The Sacred Ego: Making Peace with Ourselves and Our World

Refractory Anxiety

September 10, 2026

I am supposed to arrive at the wedding rehearsal at 4 p.m. I planned on arriving 15–20 minutes early. Because I don’t like being late. However, I took a wrong turn. At the intersection of the I-5 South and the I-405 South, I went the wrong way. Now, I’ll have to turn around in a mile and a half and

Read More »

No words. No words.

September 4, 2026

To offset our discomfort about our upcoming visit to the Terezín (in German: Theresienstadt) concentration camp/ghetto, Emmett and I fall into making dark jokes. Gallows humor. “Do you think they still give free tattoos upon arrival?” “Want to wear matching pajamas for our tour?” Dark, ugly jokes.  Because reality is just too overwhelming. The feelings are too overwhelming. So we

Read More »

Has anyone seen my keys?!

August 23, 2026

Jane and the kids misplace keys. Not me. I don’t. I always return my key to the keyrack. That’s where they go. When the key isn’t on the hook, which happens from time to time, I find it on some surface in the house. Usually, the kitchen table. Then, without fanfare, I pick it up, hang it up, and restrain

Read More »
77% Weekly Newsletter
77% Weekly Newsletter