Sofa Chats with Marcus & Lisa

Sofa Chats with Marcus & Lisa

That Missing Peace

There's a kind of peace that doesn't depend on anything going right. Most people have felt it, briefly, in the ordinary gaps between things. The moment just before sleep. A pause between tasks. A walk where the thinking dropped away. It was never missing. It was just being missed.

Every fortnight, Marcus and Lisa sit together with a small group on Zoom for about 75 minutes and talk honestly about what gets in the way of the ease that's already here. There's no set agenda and nothing prepared. Someone brings something real and it goes from there.

We'll be using the language of Stop Restarting during a Sofa Chat. Most of us live somewhere between two sentences: I'm unhappy because, and I'll be happy when. We call the stretch between them a Mindline, and it's where a lot of life gets…