The Fool in Me
"I must learn to love the fool in me -- the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me...
How do I listen?
How do I listen to others? As if everyone were my Master Speaking to me His Cherished Last Words. ---Hafiz
Internal freedom
— “human nature is built to give…” that may sound a little sentimental but it’s a hard,tough,real,wonderful truth about what a human being is…. we need to develop what we are . And that is beings that can care and give what’s needed when it’s needed….” “To be a truly...
Thoughts on Suffering
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. —Helen Keller Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can...
Thoughts for the New Year
"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit,...
Tormented connection
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been...
On Centering
"Centering is a verb. It is an ongoing process… Centering is not a model, but a way of balancing, a spiritual resource in times of conflict, an imagination. It seems in certain lights to be an alchemical vessel, a retort, which bears an integration of purposes, an...
What If ?
What if religion was each other? If our practice was our life? If prayer was our words? What if the Temple was the Earth? If forests were our church? If holy water the rivers, lakes and oceans? What if meditation was our relationships? If the Teacher was life? If...