Reading Archive (Trust)
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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 Sacred Art of Pausing
In our lives we often find ourselves in situations we can’t control, circumstances in which none of our strategies work. Helpless...
The New And Ancient Story Of Interbeing
Why does the sun shine? A random result of coalescing gases igniting nuclear fusion? Or is it in order to give its light and warmth to...
Small Graces
Night is closing in. It is time for sleep. I have walked a quiet path today. I have done no great good, no great harm. I might have...
The Same Self Is in All of Us
The same spark of divinity–this same Self–is enshrined in every creature. My real Self is not different from yours nor anyone...
What I Learned From Trees
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and...
Three Qualities Of Holiness
True happiness is uncaused. You are happy for no reason at all. And true happiness cannot be experienced. It is not within the...
Space To Heal
Healing requires space. As we plow through day to day life, we dream about finding a time when there will be space to heal,...
From Transaction To Trust
The most precious and important things in life are, by definition, nontransactional. And to try to bargain for them is to immediately...
No Longer Playing It Safe
To work for peace and justice we begin with the individual practice of love, because it is there that we can experience firsthand...
Giving Up is Different From Letting Someone Down
This inner gesture of letting go from moment to moment is what is so terribly difficult for us; and it can be applied to almost any area...
What Can You Trust?
In young people’s minds right now, the main issue is what they can trust in their own experience. In the 50s and 60s, we trusted...