Reading Archive
The Rooted Rock
Aiden Cinnamon Tea
Before you begin reading, adopt the pose of a rock—yes, a rock. Sit cross-legged (or stand if you prefer), make yourself as heavy and grounded as possible, and resist any temptation to move. Ima...
Isness
Lata Mani
Isness is the understanding that everything that exists is not only infinitely alive but also has its own particular vibrancy, vibration, specificity, particularity, and is in a deeply complex, mutual...
Kernel Of Corn
Thich Nhat Hanh
There was a patient in the mental hospital [in Vietnam] who seemed to be normal. He ate and talked like other people. But he believed that he was a kernel of corn, and every time he saw a chicken, he ...
The Future Is Unknowable
Adam Grant
Humans may be the only species that can imagine an unknown future. But that doesn’t mean we’re any good at it. We’re routinely wrong about which career we’ll choose, where w...
The Softening
Richard Rudd
Softness is one of the great secrets of all spiritual practice. When we become soft, we become like water. We let life come to us. We trust in its flow, and we allow ourselv...
Staying True To Your Heart Is The Essence Of Life
Kerri Lake
You know how people will lament when they say, "Time to get back to reality,"" or "...yeah, but that's not how the real world works"? What is the real world? Who suggested...
Looking Through A Window
Sam Harris
Everyone has had the experience of looking through a window and suddenly catching sight of his own reflection staring back at him from the glass. At that point, he can use the glass as a window, to se...
"I"
Rabindranath Tagore
The color of my consciousness made the emerald green, and the ruby red. I gazed at the sky, and the light dazzled in the east and the west. I turned to the rose and exclaimed - ‘it’s...
Perfume Of Wholeness
Vimala Thakar
A new challenge awaits us at the beginning of the twenty-first century: to go beyond fragmentation, to go beyond the incompatible sets of values held even by serious-minded people, to mature beyond th...
Gratitude Is More Than Thank You
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Gratitude is so much more than a polite “thank you.” It is the thread that connects us in a deep relationship, simultaneously physical and spiritual, as our bodies are fed and spirits nour...
Sharing Someone Else's Wound
Ariel Burger
My son was on a trip, a semester-long program in Israel, and then they traveled to Poland for 10-days. On this program, he made a good friend, a new friend, named Mason. And when they got t...
Embracing Deep Transitions With Wisdom
Vanessa Andreotti
As we stand at the precipice of endings—of species, ecosystems, organizations, and systems themselves—the work of hospicing is to move beyond fear and embrace the deep transitions ahead wi...