Ten Rules For Being Human
Rule One: You will receive a body. You may love it or hate it, but it will be yours for the duration of your life on Earth. Rule Two:...
Releasing Your Specifications
When you depend entirely upon the ability of your personality to determine what is best for you, you may stand in the way of a richness...
Stillness Speaks
Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness...
Counting On Our Ultimate Concern
The offering of one's heart happens in stages, with shadings of hesitation and bursts of freedom. Faith evolves from the first...
Who Was That Masked Man Anyway?
Humility is founded on creatureliness -- I have been created to do something that only I can do, just as you have been created to...
The Year-To-Live Experiment
I was fifty-eight years old when I began the year long experiment. When the Dalai Lama was fifty-eight years old, a reporter asked him...
The Call To Adventure
We are in a very special situation, extremely special, without precedent. We are now witnessing the birth of a new world; it is very...
Encountering Pure Mystery
Being your true self, being your true nature, is different than experiencing it with thought. Realize that you are the mystery, and that...
The Soul of Money
There comes a point where having more than we need becomes a burden. We are overcompensated, overstuffed, swimming in the excess, looking...
Questioning Our Questions
"If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper...
Fear: Its Beginning, Middle and End
Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear? It is...
Becoming Truly Independent
Many people have told me that they find something and then lose it. They wait and they seek, and then find and lose it again. Most of the...