The Difference Between Education and Training
For me, the process of education is intimately related to the process of healing. The root word of education -- educare -- means to lead...
The Place That is Free of Suffering
The world promises fulfillment somewhere in time, and there is a continuous striving toward that fulfillment in time. Many times people...
Get a Life
There are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what...
Suffering Leads to Grace
For most people, when you say that suffering is Grace it seems off the wall to them. And we’ve got to deal now with our own...
Ninety Six Words for Love
The first difficulty we meet in discussing anything concerning our feelings is that we have no adequate vocabulary to use. Where there is...
A Newly Rich Life With Yourself
Do not despise your inner world. That is the first and most general piece of advice I would offer. Our society is very outward-looking,...
Come Home to Love
Take a breath right now, and notice how abundant the air is, full of life-giving oxygen offered freely by trees and other green growing...
Search Inside or Outside?
A famous Sufi mystic, Rabiya, was searching for something on the street outsider her small hut. The sun was setting and darkness was...
The Golden Eternity
I have lots of things to share now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North...
All We Can Do Is Share Ourselves
So many of us believe that we have to do something. We have to take action in order to make a difference in the world. We must have a...
Art is a Life Raft
Art is a life raft. Many who become artists did so because they found refuge in art from some traumatic aspect of their early lives. I...
Every Sensation Comes to an End
I wonder if you know what it means to be aware of something? Most of us are not aware because we have become so accustomed to condemning,...