Reading Archives (2024)
"I"
The color of my consciousness made the emerald green, and the ruby red. I gazed at the sky, and the light dazzled in the east and the...
Perfume Of Wholeness
A new challenge awaits us at the beginning of the twenty-first century: to go beyond fragmentation, to go beyond the incompatible sets of...
Gratitude Is More Than Thank You
Gratitude is so much more than a polite “thank you.” It is the thread that connects us in a deep relationship, simultaneously...
Sharing Someone Else's Wound
My son was on a trip, a semester-long program in Israel, and then they traveled to Poland for 10-days. On this program, he...
Embracing Deep Transitions With Wisdom
As we stand at the precipice of endings—of species, ecosystems, organizations, and systems themselves—the work of hospicing...
The Best Day Of My Life
The best day of my life—my rebirthday, so to speak—was when I found I had no head. This is not a literary gambit, a witticism...
We Can See Only What We Can Think
Fortunately or not, everything we do is led by our thinking. There's just no way around it. Even if I say, "I'm going to...
Gymnastics Of Attention
I once tried an improv class to see if that would finally help calm my stage nerves. It didn't. But I did learn something amazing....
Between Knowing And Not Knowing
Ezra Klein: I sometimes play with the idea — and recognizing that I know nothing in these areas — that a lot of what is being...
A New Energy Grid
In a ceremony a couple years ago, I received a powerful teaching. I was invited to think of some things for which I felt grateful....
Why Do We Send Flowers?
Why do we send flowers? To make up for what is intangible? Those feelings we can’t hold in our hands and present as a gift to our...
Live As You Like But Renounce Internally
Reality is without attributes: it is not color, it is not music, it is not yellow or black, etc. What you see is only the qualified...