Reading Archive (Connection)
He Who Accumulates Cannot Learn
It seems that communion is a very difficult art. To commune with one another over the many problems that we have requires listening and...
Serving Is Different From Helping And Fixing
In recent years the question how can I help? has become meaningful to many people. But perhaps there is a deeper question we might...
Everything Is Waiting For You
Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no...
Why Do We Shout In Anger?
A saint who was once visiting a river to take a bath found a group of family members on the banks, shouting in anger at each other. He...
Pablo Neruda's Greatest Lesson from Childhood
Playing in the lot behind the house one day when he was still a little boy, Neruda discovered a hole in a fence board. "I looked...
Social Intelligence
One day, late for a meeting in midtown Manhattan, I was looking for a shortcut. So I walked into an indoor atrium on the ground floor of...
The Great Dictator
I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. ...
Aliveness and Harmony
A man is alive when he is wholehearted, true to himself, true to his own inner forces, and able to act freely according to the nature of...
Helping, Fixing, Serving
Service is not the same as helping. Helping is based on inequality, it's not a relationship between equals. When you help, you use your...
Micro Moments of Love
It’s time to upgrade our view of love. First and foremost, love is an emotion, a momentary state that arises to infuse your...
Developing Mindsight
Oftentimes people hear the word mindfulness and think “religion,” but the reality is that focusing our attention in this way...
Small Kindnesses
I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers...
Response Vs. Reaction
When I was 19 and 20, part of what drove my urge to awaken was that we were still in the midst of the Cold War, and it looked as though...
To Be On A Spiritual Path
"To be on a spiritual path means to live mindfully, paying attention to the signs along the road and being conscious of our body...
Clouds In Each Paper
If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain;...
How Is Your Heart Doing?
In many Muslim cultures, when you want to ask them how they’re doing, you ask: in Arabic, Kayf haal-ik? or, in Persian, Haal-e...
Be Love Now
Imagine feeling more love from someone than you have ever known. You’re being loved even more than your mother loved you when you...
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...
I-It and I-Thou
(Reflections on "I-Thou" by Martin Buber) I-It relationships come in two varieties. Some are strictly utilitarian....
Money is a Lot Like Water
We’ve allowed this culture of money to shut down our heart, close off access to our soul, and drive us such that we behave in ways...