Reading Archive (Nature)
Live the Questions Now
In the great silence of these distances, I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life, even more than I was in Paris, where...
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...
My Work is Loving the World
My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast;...
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;...
What We Need Is Here
Horseback on Sunday morning, harvest over, we taste persimmon and wild grape, sharp sweet of summer's end. In time's maze...
Advice From A Tree
Dear Friend, Stand Tall and Proud Sink your roots deeply into the Earth Reflect the light of a greater source Think long term Go out...
The Way of the Water
We have glamorized the way of the warrior for millennia. We have identified it as the supreme test and example of courage, strength,...
Serving Like The Mountain Stream
I was taught when I was a little boy that it was good to be unselfish and loving, and I used to think that I should grow up to serve...
Trees are Sanctuaries
Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to...
Tired of Clinging
Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river. The current of the river swept silently over them...
Working With Soil, Attending To Soul
A garden tends to get inside us. If we go there to accomplish something or to get something, the garden soon becomes a burden. With...
Bridging The Spiritual and Mundane
As I now look at our situation, I distinguish three major domains in which human life participates. One I call the transcendent domain,...
Remember
Remember the sky that you were born under,...
Returning to the Language of Life
We do not always know what it is or how to articulate it, but deep inside there is a longing, a longing to live according to a true...
Do-Nothing Cultivation
The usual way to go about developing a method is to ask, "How about trying this?" or "How about trying that?" bringing in a variety of...
Pain, the Price of Freedom
Wise beings do not want to remain a slave to the fear of pain. They permit the world to be what it...
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...
Conscious Simplicity
Here are three major ways that I see the idea of simplicity presented in today’s popular media: 1) Crude or Regressive...
Medicine for the Earth
In all spiritual traditions it is taught that everything that manifests in the physical world starts in the invisible realms of spirit....
Everything Human Is Natural
Man is as much attached to nature as a tree, and though he walks freely on two legs and is not rooted in the soil, he is by no means a...