Grateful For Nothing
If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance your life is relatively safe -- so safe that safety isn’t on your mind....
Pilgrim In The Open Shore
Today the clouds and ocean are indistinguishable the horizon vanished with the incessant rhythm this breathing feels synchronized...
The Matrix
"Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain. But you feel...
Opening Thy Palm
I had gone a-begging from door to door in the village path when thy golden chariot appeared in the distance like a gorgeous dream and I...
Greatest Of All Religions
Hazrat Inayat Khan said, "A study of life is the greatest of all religions, and there is no greater or more interesting study."...
Not Loneliness, But Aloneness
Alone is a state of being. Not loneliness, but aloneness. It is something sought rather than avoided. You can find it in just a moment, a...
Remember
Remember the sky that you were born under,...
Spiritual Life Begins Within The Heart
The truth is that we spend our lives in the centrifuge of paradox. What seems certainly true on the one hand seems just as false on the...
Hiding A Penny
When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own and hide it for someone else to...
Causes Of Happiness
The purpose of life is to strive for happiness. Every sentient being has the right to survive; this means having a desire for...
Unconditioned Stillness
Stillness, a sense of the unchanging, is all around. For example, it’s not the ultimate stillness, but there is that...
Stepping Over The Bag Of Gold
My patient, a physician who has cancer, comes to his session enormously pleased with himself. Knowing my love of stories, he says that he...