I was doing pretty well with weekly posts but the last few weeks got too complicated. I had a really demanding week of work travel and then the next week was Labor day week. So now I’m on week 3 and if I don’t get back to writing, I’ll really be letting the momentum shift. That means today’s the day, whether I know what I have to say or not. Last week I actually started writing a post about sleep. I had two of the best nights of sleep of my life, which was amazing, followed by four nights of terrible sleep. And then I was reading the yoga sutras and realizing all the ways that sleep is actually important for spiritual growth. Not just because sleep deprivation feels horrible and makes it very difficult to focus the mind or be disciplined, but because the experience of good sleep is a resource to draw on while moving toward the experience of clearing out the mind while awake. There’s a beautiful passage in the yoga sutras about how one way to make spiritual progre...