Reading Archive
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...
I Care And I'm Willing To Serve
Lord I cannot preach like Martin Lurther King, Jr.or turn a poetic phrase like Maya Angeloubut I care and am willing to serve. I do not...
Silence Between Breaths
There is a silence between breaths when the heart becomes a sacred flame and the belly uncoils which reminds me how remarkable it is...
To Remember This Dance, We Woke
Once you free your sight once you be for life We are… When I dream, I dream in white, of bells and...