Reading Archives (Author)
The Practice Before The Practice
From the moment we open our eyes, we are meaning-seeking creatures, looking for what matters though we carry what matters deep within us....
The Exquisite Risk
At any moment, if quiet enough and open enough, we can drop into the fabric of existence in which everything, even pain, has its vivid...
The Work Of Love Is To Love
My own time on earth has led me to believe in two powerful instruments that turn experience into love: holding and listening. For every...
Living In The Freshest Chamber Of The Heart
Our ability to find something to love, and to love again for the first time depends greatly on how we resolve and integrate where...
Be Alight with Who We Are
There is always purpose in being, but not always being in purpose. How easily we get caught up in defining who we are in relation to...
Love Like Water
Water in its clear softness fills whatever hole it finds. It is not skeptical or distrusting. It does not say this gully is too deep or...
Honoring the Gill Inside You
A simple fish nosing its way along the bottom is in itself a profound teacher, and like the deepest teachers, it doesn't even know it...
To Separate and Unify
The destruction or healing of the world hinges on which way this thought unfolds. Whether we pull things apart or put things together...
The Energy of Being Real
"Mana" is a term originally used in a Polynesian and Melanesian cultures to describe an extraordinary power or force residing in a person...
Outlasting the Fog
We all have these moments when the rose loses it color for some reason, or the music no longer stirs us, or the sweet, gentle soul across...
Waterfall of Words
There was a time in my life during my years in college when I was so talkative that the waterfall of words kept others at a safe...
Wisdom in Blinking
We blink a thousand times a day. A thousand times a day the world goes dark. A thousand times a day we wake. We can't escape this...
The Unwatched Space
I tried so hard to please that I never realized no one is watching. I imagined, like everyone else at school, that my parents were...
To Witness and To Hold
We have been battered by modern times into obsessive problem solvers, but as life pares us down into only what is essential, it...
The Rabbit And The Garden
In the movie Phenomenon, John Travolta's character has done everything he can think of to keep this pesky rabbit out of his garden....