Open to Any Possibility
In using thought in this way we are not demanding a fixed or certain answer. We must remain open to any possibility. If something...
Thousand Branches, Million Plums
As a seed is capable of becoming a tree, all human beings are also capable of realizing their own full potential. In order for the seed...
Radical Response
Although not wholly adequate, Matthew Fox's definition of prayer is still my favorite. It is a definition that doesn't even use the word...
A Marvelous Victory
There is a tendency to think that what we see in the present moment we will continue to see. We forget how often in this century we have...
Turn on the Light
Improving our lives might just be simple, if we let it. We can upgrade all kinds of old patterns and situations in a much shorter time...
Share Pain Not Suffering
Just as insight has many facets, so also with service. I would like to talk about just one aspect -- compassion. Compassion is...
A Living Silence
How can you understand silence -- chaotic or otherwise? Is it possible for you to capture that silence? When that silence starts...
Four Purifications
Then I discovered that there were some purifications required of me. The first one is such a simple thing: it is purification of the...
Deep Place Within
As your consciousness descends deeper and deeper, you move from a peripheral mode of thinking toward the creative source of thought...
Movement of Love
Love comes from a place of seeing that the truth seems to be manifested and expressed through a human personality for the sake of the...
Sacred Nothingness
"Vimalaji," I say, "these days a lot of people are interested in spirituality and yet it seems that only in very few is there a radical...
Life is Relationship
Every moment of our life is relationship. There is nothing except relationship. At this moment my relationship is to the rug, to the...