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...
End of Absence?
As we embrace a technology’s gifts, we usually fail to consider what they ask from us in return — the subtle, hardly...
Returning to the Language of Life
We do not always know what it is or how to articulate it, but deep inside there is a longing, a longing to live according to a true...
The Act of Giving is the True Gift
In an ancient Indian epic, Arjuna, a famed warrior questions his divine charioteer, Krishna, about the noblest giver in the land....
Sincerely Enthusiastic
I wanted to laugh more, I wanted to show more loving-kindness, and I also wanted to be more enthusiastic. I knew that it wasn't nice...