Simple Was Satisfying
The cultivation of mindfulness is key to waking up and fully experiencing simple pleasures. Simple pleasures are small things that...
Dark Side Of Empathy
Empathy that connects, that builds, that heals requires a code of ethics. It requires restraint. It requires trust. It asks the...
Circles And Dots
The teacher drew a large circle on a paper pasted to a board. Then he turned to his students and said, This is the great circle of...
Why DIY Devotion Doesn't Work
We are not seekers anymore—we are shoppers, not always really shopping, perhaps just window shopping. In an age where...
There Is Faith In Humor
Life inevitably has its sadnesses, which are part of every path of hope and every path toward conversion. But it is important to avoid...
End Of Violence
Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we...
The Fish, The Net, And The Water
Once the fish said to the turtle: “I have heard about a huge thing that is called ‘the ocean.’ Does it really exist?...
To Pray Without Ceasing
On the twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost I went to church to say my prayers there during the liturgy. The first Epistle of St. Paul to...
Don't Leave Me Raw
A woman was standing over a fire, having poured a handful of dry, hardened chickpeas into water. As the water warmed up to the point of...
Unexpected Strength
A 10-year-old boy decided to study judo despite the fact that he had lost his left arm in a devastating car accident. The boy began...
We See Into The Life Of Things
These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye: But oft, in lonely...
Inner Voice Vs. Ego Voice
I was recently talking to a friend who was laboring over whether or not to move in with her boyfriend. She had previously...