How Generosity Blossoms Into Meditation
The cultivation of generosity is the beginning of the path. [...] The path begins there because of the joy that arises from a generous...
Unlocking a New Sphere of Reality
Being attentive unlocks a sphere of reality that no one suspects. If, for instance, I walked along a path without being attentive,...
A Blessing for One Who is Exhausted
When the rhythm of the heart becomes hectic, Time takes on the strain until it breaks; Then all the unattended stress falls in On the...
Two Ways of Learning Relaxation
There are two ways of learning relaxation, because there are two distinct levels at which a person can relax. I speak of top-to-bottom...
Make Death Your Ally
Death is an important ally for appreciating life. I am not referring to a morbid preoccupation with death. Rather, I mean the felt...
The Mystery of Love
Remember that you don't choose love. Love chooses you. All you can really do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into...
Rest and Be Taken
When there is deep abundance there is nowhere to abide. There is nowhere to rest or grasp onto and yet there is rest The sky...
Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts.
When I was in college, and for many years after, I liked the natural world. Didn’t love it, but definitely liked it. It can be very...
Balancing Vision and Routine
All human activity can be viewed as an interplay between two contrary but equally essential factors -- vision and repetitive routine....
Flow of Money
In a modern society in which most everything essential to a secure and happy life seems to depend on money, the flow of money takes on...
Live the Questions Now
In the great silence of these distances, I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life, even more than I was in Paris, where...
Paradox of Noise
It is a paradox that we encounter so much internal noise when we first try to sit in silence. It is a paradox that experiencing pain...