Reading Archives (2018)
My Word Of The Year
My word of the year is listen. It’s one of those words whose meaning is in its music. Listen is a quiet word, that half...
Who Is My Neighbor?
Some thirty years ago, I went into sermons from the early third century into the nineteenth century dealing with this story of the...
How Observation Changes Relationships
When we sit in silence what do we do? We sit and observe the voluntary and involuntary activities of the body and mind. Slowly the...
Three Stages Of Perceiving Impermanence
Impermanence is just appreciating the normal changing-ness of each experience at deeper levels of poignancy. One way to think about this...
The New And Ancient Story Of Interbeing
Why does the sun shine? A random result of coalescing gases igniting nuclear fusion? Or is it in order to give its light and warmth to...
Preparing For The Extraordinary: An Essential Practice
Preparing for the extraordinary is one of the [...] essential practices of collective wisdom. It requires clear intention and...
The Root Of The Root Of Your Self
Don’t go away, come near. Don’t be faithless, be faithful. Find the antidote in the venom. Come to the root of the root of...
Uniform Corn-Rows In High-Tech Isolation
I live in the lush green farm country of upstate New York, in a town that likely has more cows than people. Most everyone I know grows...
Attention Is Inseparable From Interrogation
Our attention is much more than we generally think. It is much more than a simple mental or cerebral mechanism. It concerns our whole...
No Rush, No Dawdle: The Secret Of Proper Timing
The present is truly the only place we exist. What we call the past is a construct of memory, the recollection of which constitutes a...
Love Is Not An Emotion
Love, defined as micro moments of positivity resonance, may thus be the most generative and consequential of all positive emotions. By...
Intentions And Effects
Have you ever wondered why things happen the way they do in your life? Have you ever considered that the creation of your experiences,...