Cultivating Affirmation
This is going to sound crazy. Say yes to everything. Accept all offers. Go along with the plan. Support someone else's dream. Say "yes";...
Guest House
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes...
Divided You Suffer, United You Dance
Do things with your whole heart, with as much intensity as you are capable of. Anything done halfheartedly never brings joy to life....
The Practice of Happiness
1. Give yourself permission to be human. When we accept emotions -- such as fear, sadness, or anxiety -- as natural, we are more likely...
The Hardest and Most Courageous Act
We do not live merely to "do something" –- no matter what. Activity is just one of the normal expressions of life, and the life it...
The Blooming of the Offering Within You
A poem is a flower you offer to people. A compassionate look, a smile, an act filled with loving-kindness is also a flower that blooms on...
Riding the Crest of the Unknown
You know little about yourself -– the hidden motives and blind spots, where thought actually takes its shape, where desire is subtly...
The Four Relinquishments
Once you've made the first relinquishment, you have found inner peace because it's the relinquishment of self-will. You can work on this...
A Search for Hidden Opportunity
When considering the future, remember that all situations unfold as they do regardless of how we feel about them. Our hopes and fears...
Antithesis Of Addiction
There is something deep within our nature. A guiding light if you will. A voice that always speaks of goodness. A voice that is always...
Ourselves We're Helping, Ourselves We're Healing
I am touched by another when the distance between us is reduced to zero. I am touched only if I respond from my own center -- that is,...
When Death Comes
When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps...