Author: Tim Coats

This week, I’m pausing the presentation of installments of my new book to comment on leadership and the U.S. Presidential Election. ————————————————————— Leadership and the U.S. Presidential Election America has lost grasp of the meaning of leadership. This concerns me more than the ideologies of the right or left. What does political leadership look like? …

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The Secret Within is a book I’m writing about the art of finding happiness and peace amidst personal difficulties.  This is the Seventh installment. Previous installments can be found here. ————————————————————— 7. Here and Now The 13th-century Dominican theologian and mystic Meister Eckhart wrote: ‘Time is what keeps the light from reaching us.” What did …

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The Secret Within is a book I’m writing about the art of finding happiness and peace amidst personal difficulties.  This is the Sixth installment. Previous installments can be found here. ————————————————————— 6. Being Curious A persistent theme in this book is Self-transcendence.   We become who we think we are. We like to follow a …

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The Secret Within is a book I’m writing about the art of finding happiness and peace amidst personal difficulties.  This week’s installment is part two of The Anatomy of Pain, covered last week and found here. ————————————————————— Chapter 5: Transcending Pain  Stop, Accept, and Renew is a practice designed to transcend debilitating emotional pain. Stop …

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The Secret Within is a book I’m writing about the art of finding happiness and peace amidst personal difficulties.  This is the fourth installment. Previous installments can be found here. ————————————————————— 4. The Anatomy of Pain Pain associated with major loss goes through three stages: First, it utterly destroys us. In time, many people develop …

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The Secret Within is a book I’m writing about the art of finding happiness and peace amidst personal difficulties.  This is the third installment. Previous installments can be found here. ——————————————————— 3. The Miracle of We The essence of life is relationships. A palpable energy is felt in relationships that American philosopher Ken Wilber calls …

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The Secret Within is a book I’m writing about the art of finding happiness and peace amidst personal difficulties.  This is the second installment. Previous installments can be found here. ————————————————————— 2. The Simple Feeling of Being Without conscious effort, we transition from embryo to baby to child, then to adolescent, adult, and finally, elder. …

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The Secret Within is a book I’m writing about the art of finding happiness and peace amidst personal difficulties.  This is the first installment. The preface to the book can be found here. —————————————————————— 1. Introduction Shortly after the birth of our first child, I took up running. Dan was born with myelomeningocele, a serious …

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As I restarted my weekly blog posts, I just realized that the most recent post had not been sent to subscribers. Here is a link to that post. https://tim-coats.com/2024/09/08/the-secret-within-2/

My summer sabbatical from weekly blog posts was energizing. After several false starts, I finally started progressing on my new book, The Secret Within, which explores the challenge of finding happiness and peace amidst personal difficulties. As promised, I’ll be sharing draft installments on this blog.  This week, I’m sharing the preface to the book. …

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