Fearlessness can Coexist with Fear
In meditation and in mindfulness practice, we are learning to replace fear with trust, not as an ideal or abstraction, but as a sense of...
What You See Is What You Get
When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own and hide it for someone else to...
Deep Inquiry: Not for the Faint of Heart
Authentic spiritual inquiry reveals the joy of fresh insights and revelation, just as artistic or scientific inquiry does, but if we...
Attachment is Habitual Thinking
We all judge our experiences through the filter of habitual thinking. In other words, we are unconsciously driven by how we think,...
Aliveness and Harmony
A man is alive when he is wholehearted, true to himself, true to his own inner forces, and able to act freely according to the nature of...
What to Remember When Waking
In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake, coming back to this life from the other more secret, moveable and frighteningly...
Honoring the Gill Inside You
A simple fish nosing its way along the bottom is in itself a profound teacher, and like the deepest teachers, it doesn't even know it...
Beauty Harmonizes Law and Liberty
A great poem, when analyzed, is a set of detached sounds. The reader who finds out the meaning, which is the inner medium that connects...
Pablo Neruda's Greatest Lesson from Childhood
Playing in the lot behind the house one day when he was still a little boy, Neruda discovered a hole in a fence board. "I looked...
Indulge an Attachment
One of my meditation teachers was a man who had devoted many years to spiritual practice. He had studied many spiritual texts,...
Art And The Practice Of Being Yourself
There isn’t only one kind of artist in the world, one way of becoming an artist. There is, above all, a need to articulate your own...
Is It Really Worth It?
It’s been difficult to accept that I’m often a battleground for several sides of myself, which seem to act in opposition to...