Reading Archive
From The Mind To The Heart
Our mind is not our enemy. It is a sacred gift. It helps us think, question, imagine, and understand the world. But the mind is not the...
Helping In
Many of us, for whatever reason, have some kind of inborn desire to help others, to make the world a better place. It seems pretty clear...
The Higher Teaching: Take A Vacation
A meditation student once went to the mountains, hoping to find silence. He rented a small cabin near a stream, thinking the sound of...
Becoming Airports
Having gone through too many airports and terminals on my way to destinations around the world, I recently began to think about my...
The Loyal Soldier Can't Defeat The Ego
Sooner or later, if you are on any classic “spiritual schedule,” some event, person, death, idea, or relationship will enter...
Let Us Pose A Question
Let us pose a question.Do we truly comprehend all that we hold in our hands?We grasp to hold precious moments in time, captured instants...
Noise
When I get to the redwood forest, the trees welcome me with the ancient eloquence of their silence. I’ve been away so long...
Four Friendly Facts
A friendly person is someone who can empathize with you. They can put themselves in your shoes and see things from your point of view....
Us Vs. Them
The great leader never feels it is us versus them. He or she is for everybody. To be for one interest group is never to be against...
What Catches My Attention?
Long, long before there were any written words, there were animals—and all the rest of the teeming natural world. Creation is the...
Art Does Not Ask For Proof
We live in a world of evidence. Our cities’ infrastructures and our environmental planning, our school curricula and our economic...
Radical Honesty
Radical honesty, a form of authenticity that begins inside you, is a warm recognition that you gently apply to your conscious life. This...