Compassion: an Objective Form of Empathy
As the Dalai Lama explains, if you are walking along a trail and come along a person who is being crushed by a boulder, an empathetic...
Awareness is Profound Interest
The man who wants to improve himself can never be aware, because improvement implies condemnation and the achievement of a result;...
The Gift of New Eyes
Many years ago, I had just given a talk on the messages, both positive and negative, that we convey to our patients without our...
Love Like Water
Water in its clear softness fills whatever hole it finds. It is not skeptical or distrusting. It does not say this gully is too deep or...
The Power of Art
Strength takes many forms, and the most obvious forms are not always the most significant. The men who create power make an indispensable...
True Splendor of Science
The true splendor of science is not so much that it names and classifies, records and predicts, but that it observes and desires to know...
Choosing Suffering over Safety
“Can you walk, sweetheart?” I say these words to our dog Stella who is dying. It’s time for breakfast and if she walks...
Spontaneous Resonance
A friend recently described her spontaneous reaction to a police officer beating a black youth. The cracking sound of a blow to the youth...
The Pleasure of Serving
All of nature is a yearning for service: The cloud serves, and the wind, and the furrow. Where there is a tree to plant, you be the...
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...
Effects of Adversity
Adversity may help people distinguish between events they can really control by changing their environment versus uncontrollable events....
Call Me by My True Names
Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive. Look deeply: I arrive in every second to be a bud on a...