No Fingerprint On The Infinite
Andrea Gibson
Trauma was not being able to get the hands of the clock off of me. Healing was learning no one has ever laid a fingerprint on the part of me that’s infinite. ...
Letting The Hero Die
Paul Weinfield
Leonard Cohen said his teacher once told him that, the older you get, the lonelier you become, and the deeper the love you need. This is because, as we go through life, we tend to over-identify with b...
Remember Ourselves As A Murmuration
Zach Bush
The murmuration of birds is one of my favorite phenomena in nature—an occurrence where Starlings flock together with up to hundreds of thousands at once to create complex patterns in motion. ...
Vows Of Active Hope
Joanna Macy
On the last afternoon of a two-week intensive workshop, Joanna Macy was out walking and met a young monk from the retreat centre hosting the event. "Well," he said, "I expect now on you...
The Willing Gift
Author Unknown
The sun was soft that morning, and the breeze carried the smell of wet earth. Birds flew low over the fields as Acharya Vinoba Bhave walked barefoot along a dusty village path. He walked slowly&mda...
When Solutions Are Technologies Of Avoidance
Bayo Akomolafe
When things don't go according to plan, when the laboratory explodes into splinters of glass, smoke, and worthy intentions, it is very usual to subject the errant event to an analysis of what went...
Imagination Is Not Day-Dreaming
Phoebe Tickell
Imagination is a superpower. Every single change in society started in somebody’s imagination — or in a small group’s collective imagination — from women getting the vote, to t...
Who Is Having This Pain?
Mingyur Rinpoche
The good news about pain is the way it cries out for attention. If you place your mind on your pain, you know just where your mind is. The trick is to stay aware of the mind. Most of the time, when pa...
Wisdom Of Rocks
Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
Let us linger on the wisdom of rocks—not as inert masses but as carriers of time, witnesses to cycles far beyond human comprehension. The rocks are not “wise” in the human sense of d...
Love Itself Was Gone
Leonard Cohen
The light came through the window Straight from the sun above And so inside my little room There plunged the rays of love In streams of light I clearly saw The dust you seldom see Out of which...
The Weighing
Jane Hirshfield
The heart's reasons seen clearly, even the hardest will carry its whip-marks and sadness and must be forgiven. As the drought-starved eland forgives the drought-starved lion who finally...
Fullness On The Other Side Of Emptiness
Mirabai Starr
In many mystical traditions, across the spectrum of the world’s religions, we find a paradoxical teaching that says the most reliable means for knowing God is by unknowing. Christian mysticism u...