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...
Seekers of Ultimate Mystery
Every seeker of Ultimate Mystery has to pass through interior death and rebirth, perhaps many times over. Our contemporary...
How Randomness Rules Our Lives
I remember, as a teenager, watching the yellow flame of the Sabbath candles dancing randomly above the white paraffin cylinders that...
Make Your Life Into a Giving
Make your life into a giving. When I say a giving, it is not to be understood as an act. Giving as an act is a deception because, after...
We Are Between Stories
We live in an exciting time. As cultural historian, Thomas Berry put it: "We are between stories." The old story -- bracketed...
Everyday Creativity
I’m rather good at maps. I’m also good at using a GPS device. But I forgot the maps and here we were, late afternoon, last...
Letter to My Grandson
Change is difficult for all of us. The older we get, the more change we face. All change involves loss, and whenever we lose...
A Spiritual Conspiracy
On the surface of the Earth exactly now there is war and violence and everything looks horrible. But, simultaneously, something...