To Witness and To Hold
We have been battered by modern times into obsessive problem solvers, but as life pares us down into only what is essential, it...
Time To Stop Pretending
It's time we stop pretending, subtly or overtly, that our particular group is superior in some way. That's a hidden way of saying, "I'm...
Sacrifice Your Suffering
I have already said before that sacrifice is necessary. Without sacrifice, nothing can be attained. But if there is anything in the...
Armchair Explorer
"The explorer returned to his people, who were eager to know about the Amazon. But how could he ever put into words the feelings that...
The Witness
George Gurdjieff, a Russian philosopher-mystic noted that if you set an alarm clock at night in order to get up early to get some work...
How Could There Be Wars?
There is too much hate and suffering in the world. Things are out of order, out of harmony and balance. Why are heaven and earth...
Surrendering To The Stream
The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. [...] Siddhartha listened. He was now listening intently, completely absorbed, quite...
His Own Eulogy
Every now and then I guess we all think realistically about that day when we will be victimized with what is life's final common...
Change Your Mind Not Actions
My own experience is that if you can be silent, and if you can transcend mind and your consciousness can grow, it does not matter what...
Enjoy Your Work
There was a man who died and found himself in a beautiful place, surrounded by every conceivable comfort. A white-jacketed man came to...
Missing Drop In The Ocean
A friend of Mother Teresa from her early days came by hoping to have a quiet word with her and found, to her pleasant surprise, that...
Supreme Consideration Is Man
What I object to is the "craze" for machinery, not machinery as such. The craze is what they call labor-saving machinery. Men go on...