Building a Creative Temple
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whenever you set out to build a creative temple, whatever it may be, you must face the fact that there is a tension at the heart of the universe between good and evil. Hinduism refers to this as a str...
You Carry Your Wound
Osho
You carry your wound. With the ego, your whole being is a wound. And you carry it around. Nobody is interested in hurting you, nobody is positively waiting to hurt you; everybody is engaged in safegua...
Stop Eating Our Corn!
Akinori Kimura
[ Fascinated by machinery, a Japanese farmer bought a big foreign tractor to grow his corn and apples in northern Japan. Thirty years ago he had a conversion, however, to growing organically, a conv...
Learning to Suffer More Effectively
Shinzen Young
Psychological grasping is your main source of suffering, not the physical sensations in your legs -- that is to say, how much you are tightening psychologically around those sensations is the ma...
Trust in the Awareness
Ajahn Sumedho
‘Meditation’ can mean all kinds of things. It’s a word that includes any kind of mental practices, good or bad. But when I use this word, what I’m mainly using it for is that s...
A Realm Beyond Measurement
Andrew Cohen
With meditation, you can't push. Meditation is one of those things that cannot be forced. You just have ot make yourself available, and we do that by being still, being at ease, and paying...
Mighty in Contradiction: Love Powerfully
Patty De Llosa
As we see more deeply into our inner drives and defenses, we discover that the choices we are faced with aren’t all black and white. Life teaches us that our decisions aren't necessarily base...
An Undying Faith of the Infinite in Us
Rabindranath Tagore
When we watch a child trying to walk, we see its countless failures; its successes are but few. If we had to limit our observation within a narrow space of time, the sight would be cruel. ...
The Mystery Never Leaves You Alone
John O'Donohue
It is strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you alone. Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits. A world lives within you. No one else can br...
Reality Poses No Danger
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Things that are real pose no danger to the mind. The real dangers in the mind are our delusions, the things we make up, the things we use to cover up reality, the stories, the preconceived notions we ...
Along the Thread of our Inner Sincerity
Adyashanti
Sincerity is a word that I often use in teaching to convey the importance of being rooted in the qualities of honesty, authenticity, and genuineness. There can be nothing phony or contrived in our mot...
A Neuron with Imagination
Francisco Ramos Stierle
The old paradigm of life tells us that we are a collection of separate objects. We focus our attention, but in doing so, we often dissect a part of the whole without taking into account the visible, a...