Love is the Source of Fearlessness
Some of the prison bars that we have constructed for ourselves are our fear of losing our jobs. Our fear of not being liked. Our need for...
Eulogy Versus Resume Virtues
About once a month I run across a person who radiates an inner light. These people can be in any walk of life. They seem deeply good....
A Strange Predicament
When I stop to consider the facts they astonish me. There you are, couched in your own skin, and Here I am in mine. No matter how close...
Mistake of Immense Proportion
Since the beginning of recorded history, man has been haunted by the intimation that he lives in a world of mere appearances. In every...
Radical Amazement
The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted....
Force of Kindness
Many of us long for an underlying sense of meaning, something we can still believe in no matter what happens to us, a navigational force...
Surrender Your Data
Surrender your data, and I will give you wisdom. Empty your bank accounts, and let me show you value. Shut your eyes to entertainment,...
A Circle of Trust
Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I...
Graduation
Have your eye on the goal, but then let it all go For everything changes, as you will come to know Every plan you make, and every seed...
You Cannot Capture Silence, It Captures You
For me, the two correctives of all spirituality are silence and service. If either of those is missing, it is not true, healthy...
A Question of Story
For peoples, generally, their story of the Universe and the human role within the universe is their primary source of intelligibility and...
It All Goes Wrong Anyway
Wherever you live -- in a monastery, in a city, or on a quiet tree-lined street -- you will always experience problems and difficulties...