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...
Graduation
Have your eye on the goal, but then let it all go For everything changes, as you will come to know Every plan you make, and every seed...
You Cannot Capture Silence, It Captures You
For me, the two correctives of all spirituality are silence and service. If either of those is missing, it is not true, healthy...
A Question of Story
For peoples, generally, their story of the Universe and the human role within the universe is their primary source of intelligibility and...
It All Goes Wrong Anyway
Wherever you live -- in a monastery, in a city, or on a quiet tree-lined street -- you will always experience problems and difficulties...
End of Absence?
As we embrace a technology’s gifts, we usually fail to consider what they ask from us in return — the subtle, hardly...
Returning to the Language of Life
We do not always know what it is or how to articulate it, but deep inside there is a longing, a longing to live according to a true...
The Act of Giving is the True Gift
In an ancient Indian epic, Arjuna, a famed warrior questions his divine charioteer, Krishna, about the noblest giver in the land....
Sincerely Enthusiastic
I wanted to laugh more, I wanted to show more loving-kindness, and I also wanted to be more enthusiastic. I knew that it wasn't nice...
The Reality of the Illusory World
Well over a hundred years ago the painter Paul Cézanne said, “A time is coming when a carrot, freshly observed, will trigger...
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...
Freely vs Free
Today, after receiving acupuncture during my donation based shift, a patient asked me why I was “giving away” such amazing...