Reading Archive (Wholeness)
Beyond The Conflict Of Inner Forces
An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life: “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy.”It is a...
What to Remember When Waking
In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake, coming back to this life from the other more secret, moveable and frighteningly...
Serving Is Different From Helping And Fixing
In recent years the question how can I help? has become meaningful to many people. But perhaps there is a deeper question we might...
Processing Anger With An Open Heart
Anger is an intense and primal expression of the life force, a burning flame that cannot be ignored. It is the psyche’s alarm...
Contemplation Vs. Social Change
Brother David: You can’t really be a contemplative, unless you also want to change the world. You want to...
Aliveness and Harmony
A man is alive when he is wholehearted, true to himself, true to his own inner forces, and able to act freely according to the nature of...
Helping, Fixing, Serving
Service is not the same as helping. Helping is based on inequality, it's not a relationship between equals. When you help, you use your...
Developing Mindsight
Oftentimes people hear the word mindfulness and think “religion,” but the reality is that focusing our attention in this way...
You Carry Your Wound
You carry your wound. With the ego, your whole being is a wound. And you carry it around. Nobody is interested in hurting you, nobody is...
How Is Your Heart Doing?
In many Muslim cultures, when you want to ask them how they’re doing, you ask: in Arabic, Kayf haal-ik? or, in Persian, Haal-e...
I Am Me
I am me. In all the world, there is no one exactly like me. There are persons who have some parts like me, but no one adds up exactly...
I-It and I-Thou
(Reflections on "I-Thou" by Martin Buber) I-It relationships come in two varieties. Some are strictly utilitarian....
Can You Love The One Who...
There’s one in you who’s sweet. There’s one in you who’s mean. Can you love them both? Can you let them...
The Power of Myth
MOYERS: Why myths? Why should we care about myths? What do they have to do with my life? CAMPBELL: My first response would be,...
Addiction
It seems that a believed thought (most often unconscious) underpinning addictions goes like this: ‘something outside of me can make...
Difference Between Healing and Curing
In my thirty years of working with cancer patients, I've seen a profound distinction between curing and healing. Curing is what a...
Force Of Love Is The Force Of Total Revolution
A tender, loving concern for all living creatures will need to arise and reign in our hearts if any of us is to survive. And our lives...
Do You Remember Your Song?
When a woman in a certain African tribe knows she is pregnant, she goes out into the wilderness with a few friends and together they pray...
To Separate and Unify
The destruction or healing of the world hinges on which way this thought unfolds. Whether we pull things apart or put things together...
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...