Making Friends with the Present Moment
Some months ago, for three successive nights, I was awakened by three insights that came to me – persistently and repeatedly...
The Secret Of Work
Whatever we do, we want a return. We are all traders. We are traders in life, we are traders in virtue, we are traders in religion. And...
What I Learned In Africa
I ended up in Africa because the plane ticket there was cheapest. I came and I stayed. For nearly 25 years I’ve lived off and on...
The Great Dictator
I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. ...
The Power of Here
Wisdom traditions worldwide say there's no greater blessing than to live the life of your soul, the source of your deepest personal...
Seeing is an Act
The question is not what to do but how to see. Seeing is the most important thing -- the act of seeing. I need to realize...
Why Do Social Work?
Q: "I want to do social work, but I don't know how to start." Krishnamurti: I think it is very important to find...
Dignity of Restraint
A word that tends to disappear from common vocabulary is restraint: foregoing certain pleasures, not because we have to, but because they...
Seekers of Ultimate Mystery
Every seeker of Ultimate Mystery has to pass through interior death and rebirth, perhaps many times over. Our contemporary...
How Randomness Rules Our Lives
I remember, as a teenager, watching the yellow flame of the Sabbath candles dancing randomly above the white paraffin cylinders that...
Make Your Life Into a Giving
Make your life into a giving. When I say a giving, it is not to be understood as an act. Giving as an act is a deception because, after...
We Are Between Stories
We live in an exciting time. As cultural historian, Thomas Berry put it: "We are between stories." The old story -- bracketed...