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...
Uncomfortable Place Of Uncertainty
We weren’t trained to admit we don’t know. Most of us were taught to sound certain and confident, to state our opinion as if...
Do You Direct Your Mind Or Does Your Mind Direct You?
You have to have an exotic sense of tolerance no matter what anybody does, what they say, how they attack you, what they want out of you...
Everything Human Is Natural
Man is as much attached to nature as a tree, and though he walks freely on two legs and is not rooted in the soil, he is by no means a...