Ok. I admit it. I hate cleaning windows. Like most of us, the task often gets delayed until the last possible moment. After craning my neck to look around the spots on the glass to see outside, I finally relent and get the window cleaner and the newspaper. My most recent attempt at cleaning windows taught me a valuable lesson. No matter how hard I scrubbed on the inside, I couldn't get the specks off the outside of the glass. At times in life, we work, blame ourselves and make excuses for why things aren't showing up as clearly as we think they should. All the while, the problem that won't go away exists outside of us, as we attempt to clean up an illusion - something out there pretending to appear like it's an internal problem.

We find ourselves in the midst of an ethical crisis. Yes, the numbers of our global financial system seem to be in disarray; but they represent mere emblems of a much deeper issue: namely, that the values we share, the decisions we make, and the cultural patterns we so consistently reify, as a collective, are in need of a profound evolution, a leap, a total revolution.

It's funny how we can create scenarios in our mind. We envision the way we think things will turn out. The problem is, life sometimes has totally different things in store for us than we expected! We can make all the plans we want and sometimes our lives go exactly the way we envision, but in all reality life tends to get messy.