Everyday Heroes
Nancy Rivard lost her 54-year-old father suddenly to bladder cancer on Christmas Eve 1983. "I wondered what life was about that it...
The Job
Enter first applicant. "You understand that this is a simple test we are giving you before we offer you the job you have...
Strong Enough To Be Weak
If you are a strong-willed and accomplished person, you may often give the impression that you are invulnerable to feeling inadequate...
Become a Lake
An aging master grew tired of his apprentice complaining, and so, one morning, sent him for some salt. When the apprentice returned,...
Look At The View
I found one of my best teachers on the boardwalk at Coney Island many years ago. It was December, and I was doing a story about how...
Giving Leftovers
As we start getting further from the L.A. area, everybody wants to have a chance to give us a meal, to help out. As a result we have...
Zen Alarm Clock
Much as you want to roll over and go back to sleep, we have to start the day sometime. Whatever serves to stir us from our slumber --...
Nowness Connects Everything
[Meditation] is what I do to start every day. It's a discipline and a setting of priorities. I'm not going to allow my mind to create...
Living to Give
In my early life I made two very important discoveries. In the first place I discovered that making money was easy. And in the second...
The Rabbit And The Garden
In the movie Phenomenon, John Travolta's character has done everything he can think of to keep this pesky rabbit out of his garden....
Smile a Lot
Life is filled with suffering, but it is also filled with many wonders, like the blue sky, the sunshine, the eyes of a baby. To suffer...
Mind is a Projector
Mind is a projector. You sit in a movie house and you see a thousand and one things passing on the screen, and the screen is empty;...