Reading Archive (Wholeness)
I-It and I-Thou
(Reflections on "I-Thou" by Martin Buber) I-It relationships come in two varieties. Some are strictly utilitarian....
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...
Reveal Your Own Wholeness
All mental healing is based on the awareness of the presence of pure Life, or wholeness, at the center of the patient. It is a calling...
Only Service Heals
If helping is an experience of strength, fixing is an experience of mastery and expertise. Service, on the other hand, is an experience...
Too Many Names
Monday is tangled up with Tuesday and the week with the year: time can’t be cut with your tired scissors, and all the names of...
Happy Birthday, Dear Sister
Happy Birthday, Dear Sister. Welcome to the festival of this world. I pray in silence on this day, That you are bestowed with the...
Death Connects Us To Life
Growing up with monastic teachings around the impermanence of life, I got the opportunity to apply them when my grandmother passed on,...
Silence
Silence is our real nature. What we are fundamentally is only silence. Silence is free from beginning and end. It was before the...
Learning to 'Presence'
When any of us acts in a state of fear or anxiety, our actions are likely to revert to what is most habitual: our most instinctual...
The Difference Between Education and Training
For me, the process of education is intimately related to the process of healing. The root word of education -- educare -- means to lead...
Bedrock On Which We All Stand
Do you realize, sir, that you are the world and the world is you? The world is not separate from you and me. There is a common thread of...
Staying Small To Stay Safe
Somewhere along the line of human evolution, fears caused many of us (especially those who lost their link to the natural environment and...
On Perfection and Priority
Determination seems to underlie all the perfections [of the mind]. There are four aspects to determination. You use...
The Full Spectrum Of True Wealth
For the past thirty years, I have been privileged to work with all kinds of people -- ordinary people, not just professionals. Each in...