Seeing is an Act
Jeanne de Salzmann
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 that it is truly an act, an action that brings something entirel...
Why Do Social Work?
J. Krishnamurti
Q: "I want to do social work, but I don't know how to start." Krishnamurti: I think it is very important to find out not how to start, but why you want to do social work at al...
Dignity of Restraint
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
A word that tends to disappear from common vocabulary is restraint: foregoing certain pleasures, not because we have to, but because they go against our principles. The opportunity to indulge in...
Seekers of Ultimate Mystery
Fr. Thomas Keating
Every seeker of Ultimate Mystery has to pass through interior death and rebirth, perhaps many times over. Our contemporary world desperately needs persons of boundless generosity who ded...
How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Leonard Mlodinow
I remember, as a teenager, watching the yellow flame of the Sabbath candles dancing randomly above the white paraffin cylinders that fueled them. I was too young to think candlelight romantic, but sti...
Make Your Life Into a Giving
Jaggi Vasudeva
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 all, what can you give? Everything that we have, including this ...
We Are Between Stories
Judith Thompson
We live in an exciting time. As cultural historian, Thomas Berry put it: "We are between stories." The old story -- bracketed on the one side by reductionist scientific materialism, and on t...
Everyday Creativity
Ruth Richards
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 day of vacation, my daughter my cousin and I, driving along a two...
Letter to My Grandson
Daniel Gottlieb
Change is difficult for all of us. The older we get, the more change we face. All change involves loss, and whenever we lose something, we ache to have it back. Everything I have los...
A Spiritual Conspiracy
Author Unknown
On the surface of the Earth exactly now there is war and violence and everything looks horrible. But, simultaneously, something quiet, calm and hidden is happening and certain people are being c...
The Difference Between Natural and Unnatural
Masanobu Fukuoka
For thirty years I lived only in my farming and had little contact with people outside my own community. During those years I was heading in a straight line toward a "do nothing" agric...
Pilgrimage to Nonviolence
Martin Luther King, Jr.
First, it must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid or merely because he lacks the instruments of violen...