Reading Archive (Finding Yourself)
Developing Mindsight
Oftentimes people hear the word mindfulness and think “religion,” but the reality is that focusing our attention in this way...
What You See Is What You Get
When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own and hide it for someone else to...
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...
Exhausting Quest For Perfection
The quest for perfection is exhausting and unrelenting, but as hard as we try, we can't turn off the tapes that fill our heads with...
Mighty in Contradiction: Love Powerfully
As we see more deeply into our inner drives and defenses, we discover that the choices we are faced with aren’t all black and...
The Way of the Farmer
Extravagance of desire is the fundamental cause which has led the world into its present predicament. Fast rather than slow, more...
What Is Holding It Together?
For you, a respite of uncontainability. Safe pages for words, to taste them as they find their rightness. Let them rest in their silky...
Life Is Full But Not Overcrowded
In my mid life, I began to realize that it's as though we have two selves or two natures or two wills with two different viewpoints....
Inclining Toward Freedom, Even Through Imperfections
If we focus only on awakening, we miss most of the spiritual practice. I’m much more interested in how we practice with not...
The Way You Live Today
Your entire destiny is contained in and determined by the way you live today: the orientation you give to your thoughts and feelings,...
Exploring the Human Heart
I thought I knew what fear was, until I heard the words 'You have cancer'. Real fear came with an unmistakable sensation: it was as...
Living Inward
To be and to be fully is Nature's aim in us; but to be fully is to be wholly conscious of one's being. This movement of going inward and...
Cultivating Affirmation
This is going to sound crazy. Say yes to everything. Accept all offers. Go along with the plan. Support someone else's dream. Say "yes";...
Doing What You Love
You should be doing what you love. What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will...
Finding the Fire
Okay, so once there was this cow lying in a field. And it mooed and mooed and mooed. A passer-by asked the farmer, "Why is your cow...