Reading Archive
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...
I Would Like ...
What would I like? I would like to live a life of wisdom and compassion, like the sunflower, turning toward what deeply nourishes it. I...
The Skills Necessary To Deal With Anguish
Truly accepting pain is not at all like passive resignation. Rather, it is active engagement with life in its most intimate sense. It is...
The Sound Of Wings
A friend and I often greet each other with the Arabic words, “Ishq Allah.” Ishq is passionate love for God. Crazy love for...
Maybe Something We Remember
Believe me when I say I wish I could offer you something like an instant parting of the clouds, a single sentence or practice that would...
Faith And Certainty Aren't The Same
What became clear for me is that we cannot control the volatile tides that life brings, but maybe we can learn to build better boats. I...
Why Does This Matter?
I’ve been a graduate student in physics for almost three years, but I only recently figured out why. I had to tackle a simple...
The Revolutionary Educator
Narration, with the teacher as narrator, leads the students to memorize mechanically the narrated account. Worse yet, it turns them...
Transmutation
The energy is expressing itself because you stored it in there. Every way you think — "I've been this way since I was little"...
A Recipe Is A Story
In English, to “cook something up” means to prepare food, but also to invent stories or schemes, to concoct something out of...
Secret To A Happy Marriage?
Why is it that many priests and monks perform marriage rites when they themselves are celibate? I have conducted many marriage ceremonies...
Seeing Reality As It Is
Meditation entails the difficult task of cultivating concentrated attention on one’s moment-to-moment experience—the endless...