Reading Archive (Love and Kindness)
When You Don't Choose Love You Choose Fear
If we could literally reach into you and remove all your fears – every one of them – how different would your life be? Think...
I Have Decided to Stick With Love
I’m concerned about a better World. I’m concerned about justice; I’m concerned about brotherhood and sisterhood;...
The Golden Eternity
I have lots of things to share now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North...
Love Like Water
Water in its clear softness fills whatever hole it finds. It is not skeptical or distrusting. It does not say this gully is too deep or...
Come Home to Love
Take a breath right now, and notice how abundant the air is, full of life-giving oxygen offered freely by trees and other green growing...
The Trick is to Keep Seeing
(The Tibetan word shenpa) is usually translated “attachment,” but a more descriptive translation might be...
Kindness Includes Everything
What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering,...
The Messiah Is One Of Us
Once upon a time there was a wise abbot of a monastery who was the friend of an equally wise rabbi. This was in the old country, long...
Reaching Underneath Our Protective Shell
There's a slogan in the Mahayana teachings that says, "Drive all blames onto oneself." The essence of this slogan is,...
The Poisoned Tree
The maturity we can develop in approaching our difficulties is illustrated by the traditional story of a poisoned tree. On first...
Mass Movement
We see throughout the world extremes of poverty and riches, abundance and at the same time starvation; we have class distinction and...
I Have No Need For An Enemy
In passing my sentence, the judge said, “There’s no hope that you can ever be rehabilitated.” My sentence of 60-90...
A Deep, Uncritical Love
You can't make radical changes in the pattern of your life until you begin to see yourself exactly as you are now. As soon as you do...
Force of Kindness
Many of us long for an underlying sense of meaning, something we can still believe in no matter what happens to us, a navigational force...
Love Needs to be Constantly Cleansed
In the stories that I cherished in my youth, happy endings almost always involved some kind of love, and I began to observe that in...
In Eyes Of God, We're All Minorities
Krister Stendahl, former dean of Harvard Divinity school, told a reporter shortly before his death in 2008, "In the eyes of God, we...
Law Of Love
I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction. Therefore there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under...
Cultivation of that Dormant Love
Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras,...