Our Teachers in Nature
Elisabet Sahtouris
Looking at living systems over time, I came to understand that they all go through a cycle that's very like our psychological maturation cycles. We start with a unity, we're undifferentiated, we come...
A Blessing for One Who is Exhausted
John O'Donohue
When the rhythm of the heart becomes hectic, Time takes on the strain until it breaks; Then all the unattended stress falls in On the mind like an endless, increasing weight, The light in the ...
The Fallacy of Togetherness
Osho
Make friends with those who are on the path at least as much as you are. If they do not take you forward, at least they do not become a reason to move you backward on your quest. If this is not possib...
Understanding and Cultivating Silence
Ajahn Sumedho
Just by exploring this you really get to understand what [self] is, how you become a personality and also to see that when there is no person there is still awareness. It’s an intelligent awaren...
We Start Where We Are
Marianna Cacciatore
When we learn to be of service to one another without imposing our ideas and advice, eventually the truth of our wholeness begins to reveal itself. This is how it unfolds. In the beginning, w...
To Know Without Needing To Understand
Gangaji
Usually, we search for understanding because we believe that it will lead to true experience. We try to understand every experience that is brought...
Three Great Forces
Brother David Steindl-Rast
The three great forces that the Christian Elders in the Egyptian desert identified as the enemies against which we’re battling are anger, lust, and laziness. The third one is called the noonday ...
Learning to 'Presence'
Peter Senge
When any of us acts in a state of fear or anxiety, our actions are likely to revert to what is most habitual: our most instinctual behaviors dominate, ultimately reducing us to our “fight &ndash...
What is Goodness?
Rabindranath Tagore
The question will be asked, "What is goodness? What does our moral nature mean?" My answer is that when a man begins to have an extended vision of his self, when he realizes that...
Daily Life of Art
Nina Wise
Since the inception of the human species and until only decades ago, daily life was infused with art making. We crafted our own tools, we sewed our own clothing, we built our own shelters, we cultiv...
Neighbors Are Our Practice
Tenzin Palmo
Meditation is only one of the many qualities that is emphasized. It's a very important one because we have to understand our mind, and we can only understand our mind by looking at it. But to be a wel...
We Have Forgotten Sabbath
Wayne Muller
A "successful" life has become a violent enterprise. We make war on our own bodies, pushing them beyond their limits; war on our children, because we cannot find enough time to be with...