Mistake of Immense Proportion
Jacob Needleman
Since the beginning of recorded history, man has been haunted by the intimation that he lives in a world of mere appearances. In every teaching and spiritual philosophy of the past we find the idea th...
Radical Amazement
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted. Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin. Wo...
Force of Kindness
Sharon Shalzberg
Many of us long for an underlying sense of meaning, something we can still believe in no matter what happens to us, a navigational force to pull all the disparate pieces of our lives together into som...
Surrender Your Data
Michael Quattrone
Surrender your data, and I will give you wisdom. Empty your bank accounts, and let me show you value. Shut your eyes to entertainment, and open them to beauty. Unplug your high-speed connection and I ...
A Circle of Trust
Parker Palmer
Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about these qualities during my bouts with depression. In t...
Graduation
Nimesh Patel
Have your eye on the goal, but then let it all go For everything changes, as you will come to know Every plan you make, and every seed you sow Is impermanent, nothing is ever yours to own Once y...
You Cannot Capture Silence, It Captures You
Richard Rohr
For me, the two correctives of all spirituality are silence and service. If either of those is missing, it is not true, healthy spirituality. Without silence, we do not really experience our experienc...
A Question of Story
Thomas Berry
For peoples, generally, their story of the Universe and the human role within the universe is their primary source of intelligibility and value. Only through this story of how the Universe came to be ...
It All Goes Wrong Anyway
Ajahn Brahm
Wherever you live -- in a monastery, in a city, or on a quiet tree-lined street -- you will always experience problems and difficulties from time to time. This is just the nature of life. So when you ...
End of Absence?
Michael Harris
As we embrace a technology’s gifts, we usually fail to consider what they ask from us in return — the subtle, hardly noticeable payments we make in exchange for their marvellous service. W...
Returning to the Language of Life
Anat Vaughan-Lee
We do not always know what it is or how to articulate it, but deep inside there is a longing, a longing to live according to a true calling. A calling that comes not from the personality but from a de...
The Act of Giving is the True Gift
Author Unknown
In an ancient Indian epic, Arjuna, a famed warrior questions his divine charioteer, Krishna, about the noblest giver in the land. "Karna is without doubt the finest example of generosity in ...