Science As Spiritual Practice
Spiritual endeavor often begins when a direct experience of suffering (or rapture) drives a person out of the confines of self. From...
An Ego Strategy to Avoid Surrender
What is conventionally called “love” is an ego strategy to avoid surrender. You are looking to someone to give you that which...
Living Lessons of Biomimicry
Biomimics are men and women who are exploring nature’s masterpieces -- photosynthesis, self-assembly, natural selection, and...
Nothing Left to Fight Against
During the Vietnam War, I was a political activist. I fought for peace. There was some contradiction. There...
Making Friends with the Present Moment
Some months ago, for three successive nights, I was awakened by three insights that came to me – persistently and repeatedly...
The Secret Of Work
Whatever we do, we want a return. We are all traders. We are traders in life, we are traders in virtue, we are traders in religion. And...
What I Learned In Africa
I ended up in Africa because the plane ticket there was cheapest. I came and I stayed. For nearly 25 years I’ve lived off and on...
The Great Dictator
I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. ...
The Power of Here
Wisdom traditions worldwide say there's no greater blessing than to live the life of your soul, the source of your deepest personal...
Seeing is an Act
The question is not what to do but how to see. Seeing is the most important thing -- the act of seeing. I need to realize...
Why Do Social Work?
Q: "I want to do social work, but I don't know how to start." Krishnamurti: I think it is very important to find...
Dignity of Restraint
A word that tends to disappear from common vocabulary is restraint: foregoing certain pleasures, not because we have to, but because they...