True Splendor of Science
The true splendor of science is not so much that it names and classifies, records and predicts, but that it observes and desires to know...
Choosing Suffering over Safety
“Can you walk, sweetheart?” I say these words to our dog Stella who is dying. It’s time for breakfast and if she walks...
Spontaneous Resonance
A friend recently described her spontaneous reaction to a police officer beating a black youth. The cracking sound of a blow to the youth...
The Pleasure of Serving
All of nature is a yearning for service: The cloud serves, and the wind, and the furrow. Where there is a tree to plant, you be the...
The Surrender Experiment
Life rarely unfolds exactly as we want it to. And if we stop and think about it, that makes perfect sense. The scope of life is...
Effects of Adversity
Adversity may help people distinguish between events they can really control by changing their environment versus uncontrollable events....
Call Me by My True Names
Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive. Look deeply: I arrive in every second to be a bud on a...
Money is a Lot Like Water
We’ve allowed this culture of money to shut down our heart, close off access to our soul, and drive us such that we behave in ways...
Man's Most Important Mistake
One of man's most important mistakes, one which must be remembered, is his illusion in regard to his I. Man such as we know him,...
A Bigger Container
We can talk about “oneness” until the cows come home. But how do we actually separate ourselves from others? How? The pride...
Privacy Is Not Possible
Traditionally, the investigating of psychological weaknesses in relation to social action has been taboo, not acceptable. As long as a...
Not Minding What Happens
J. Krishnamurti, the great Indian philosopher and spiritual teacher, spoke and traveled almost continuously all over the world for more...