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...
Everyday Creativity
I’m rather good at maps. I’m also good at using a GPS device. But I forgot the maps and here we were, late afternoon, last...
Letter to My Grandson
Change is difficult for all of us. The older we get, the more change we face. All change involves loss, and whenever we lose...
A Spiritual Conspiracy
On the surface of the Earth exactly now there is war and violence and everything looks horrible. But, simultaneously, something...
The Difference Between Natural and Unnatural
For thirty years I lived only in my farming and had little contact with people outside my own community. During those years I was...
Pilgrimage to Nonviolence
First, it must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he...
Stand In the Tragic Gap
The bad news is that violence is found at every level of our lives. The good news is that we can choose nonviolence at every level as...