Reading Archive (Trust)
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...
Technique of the Dance
Relationship is not strangled by claims. Intimacy is tempered by lightness of touch. We have moved through our day like dancers, not...
Your Life Cannot Go Wrong
In reality, your world is set up so that nothing happens to you, but everything happens for you - for your awakening, for your growth,...
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...
10 Principles of The Artist's Way
It is my experience both as an artist and as a teacher that when we move out on faith into the act of creation, the universe is able to...
The Order on the Other Side of Chaos
I use the word "chaos" to describe those times in an organization when people are confused, don't know what to do, and feel...
Law of Reversed Effort
There is a Law of Reversed Effort. The harder we try with the conscious will to do something, the less we shall succeed....
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...
Fearlessness can Coexist with Fear
In meditation and in mindfulness practice, we are learning to replace fear with trust, not as an ideal or abstraction, but as a sense of...
An Unusual Gift From My Grandfather
Often, when he came to visit, my grandfather would bring me a present. These were never the sorts of things that other people brought,...
Somehow I'm Always Held
In my short time on this planet, I have known great sorrow, plunged into the depths of oceanic despair, been thrown so deeply into my...
Ten Rules For Being Human
Rule One: You will receive a body. You may love it or hate it, but it will be yours for the duration of your life on Earth. Rule Two:...
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...
A Circle of Trust
Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I...
Tale of the Journeying Stream
A stream, from its course in far-off mountains, passing through every kind and description of countryside, at last reached the sands of...
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 Surrender Experiment
Life rarely unfolds exactly as we want it to. And if we stop and think about it, that makes perfect sense. The scope of life is...
Blessing For The Longest Night
All throughout these months as the shadows have lengthened, this blessing has been gathering itself, making ready, preparing for...
This I Believe
I am not going to talk about religious beliefs but about matters so obvious that it has gone out of style to mention them. I believe in...
Life May Itself Be A Koan
Consider the Zen practice of the koan, the question or problem proposed by Zen masters to each other or by masters to students. The koan...