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;...
Love Your Enemy
"Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which...
Joy and Sorrow
"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears....
Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it a word, causes fear. Jeet Kune Do [a martial arts form by Bruce Lee] favors...
Autobiography in Five Chapters
1) I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost ... I am hopeless. It isn't my fault. It takes...
Attachment With Detachment
Attachment is the source of all our pleasures now. We are attached to our friends, to our relatives; we are attached to our...
Cleaning the Window
We've never really accepted boredom as a conscious state. As soon as it comes into the mind we start looking for something interesting,...
Wave is Part of the Ocean
"I heard a nice little story the other day," Morrie says. He closes his eyes for a moment and I wait. "Okay. The story is about a...