Time is a Season
Most traditional human cultures have seen the hours of the days in the same way as they have encountered the seasons of the year: not as...
Organic Gift
Years ago, I heard Dorothy Day speak. Founder of the Catholic Worker movement, her long-term commitment to living among the poor on New...
Be with the Magic
When animals look out of their eyes they don’t see what we see. Some of them see ultraviolet light, some of them can see very...
Death is Life's Door
(Note from the Editors: 'Sitting' here refers to seated meditation) Sitting enabled me to see, and compelled me to...
Lessening the Power of Negative Emotions
I profoundly believe that real spiritual change comes about not by merely praying or wishing that all negative aspects of our minds...
We Are What We Choose to Be
On rare and precious moments, someone will tell me about when he used to play the saxophone or when she used to dream about opening a...
Humility Really Cannot be Considered a Virtue
Ego and pride are closely related, almost synonymous effects born of the same cause, ignorance of the relationship of the individualized...
Compassion: an Objective Form of Empathy
As the Dalai Lama explains, if you are walking along a trail and come along a person who is being crushed by a boulder, an empathetic...
Awareness is Profound Interest
The man who wants to improve himself can never be aware, because improvement implies condemnation and the achievement of a result;...
The Gift of New Eyes
Many years ago, I had just given a talk on the messages, both positive and negative, that we convey to our patients without our...
Love Like Water
Water in its clear softness fills whatever hole it finds. It is not skeptical or distrusting. It does not say this gully is too deep or...
The Power of Art
Strength takes many forms, and the most obvious forms are not always the most significant. The men who create power make an indispensable...