Question: Many men seem to have a fear of intimacy and difficulty connecting with their depth of feeling. Women seem to miss intimacy in their partnerships with men. I wonder if there is this kind of difference in men and women's spiritual yearning? I bet you could create a special seminar for men on how to connect more deeply with their feelings.

Question: Is it possible that some of us just cannot learn in a single lifetime? The mind says enough is enough. Having done all I can and failed, there is only a fleeting flicker of light at the end of this tunnel. I accept that only Divinity can provide in this moment, but I'm tired and wait in silence to hear. Knowing I need help, I continue to ask. Will this be enough?

Question: There is a feeling of being stuck in all the lies that spin within this consciousness and I am humbled at seeing where I have been living, and the lie that I have been above that. I don't feel judgement in seeing these facts but am a bit horrified.

Question: How can somebody put an end to the seeking? All the questions about life and death seem to bring new questions and more anxiety, and no resolution. I do not want to follow any spiritual recipe or practice but want to live and just be without fearing the unknown answers to all these increasing questions.

Question: I have attempted to practice non-resistance. Sometimes in doing this, the waves that pass through a given moment can be quite intense. Often I am among people or circumstances that make it difficult to "allow." This level of practice, in my (Buddhist) tradition, is usually undertaken by forest monks or people who've left lay life and live in a situation dedicated to this alone...

Question: How can I help in the plight of black people? It appears to me that police have a state-sanctioned pass to kill them. I have listened to your podcasts for two years and have transformed my life. I love your message of living a fearless life, including: "If you give up before you light up, you've lost everything." I can intuit there is a solution because here I am, but I cannot visualize it.

Question: When we fall, is it in the very moment we are falling -- or right after that falling experience -- that we must see the real reason why we did fall instead of blaming the entire environment as the reason we temporarily fell?

Question: I have suffered from anxiety for years, experiencing many "irrational" fears that have become obsessions. Sometimes it seems that I am going crazy, and I even think of killing myself.

Question: I understand your message that everything I go through reflects something about me. But when someone betrays or steals from me, don't I have to react to the behavior and set boundaries? And to enlarge the question, what about wars and other acts of violence against innocent people? I am distressed to hear about the next assassination, even when I am not affected...

Question: Why is life so unfair? I am only 21 and yet I have had every hope of academic opportunity dashed. Things seem to go so well for others... such as having parents who love and support them, while I have had to let go of all of my dreams! Answer: Life is not "equal opportunity"... it never has been, and never will be. That is the nature of this world, and resenting the reality of it does...

I understand the need to be aware of when I am thinking negative thoughts or going over in my mind past situations that didn't go well, however what do I do instead? Could it be as simple as turning my mind to something else such as an affirmation that I can tell myself at those times?

Question: My daughter is leaving for college soon and her journey apart from me will begin. As I let her go to find her own way in the world, what spiritual encouragement can I give her? Answer: There is nothing greater in this life, to do with one's life, than to make an offering of it. In some ways, some days, this kind of sacrifice may feel as nothing, and to no end...