It’s still possible to fully understand you have always been the place where the miracle has happened: that you have been since your...

"You can think of spiritual practice as a kind of spiritual re-parenting ... You're offering yourself the two qualities that make up good...

This is a gentle practice to meet the pull of a familiar habit - be it food, scrolling, rumination, or over-efforting - not with shame or...

The universe is a form of divine law, your reasonable father. When you feel ungrateful to him, the shapes of the world seem mean and...

G Ground ·      Pause. Take a breath. Feel your feet, your body, the contact with the ground, or a sense of spaciousness around the body....

Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it...

As long as we’re caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly...

In the great silence of these distances, I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life, even more than I was in Paris, where...

On a day when the world is weighty, dark and dense with need, I want to be the earthworm that gives itself over to tunneling, its every...

“I like to [tell people to] do it before you get out of bed,” Boykin said. “Take three deep breaths, and then [ask yourself], ‘How do I...

“What you do for yourself, any gesture of kindness, any gesture of gentleness, any gesture of honesty and clear seeing toward yourself,...

Be mindful of intention. Intention is the seed that creates our future. - Jack Kornfield

Wintering brings about some of the most profound and insightful moments of our human experience, and wisdom resides in those who have...

Who are you, between the early, sleepless morning and the brightest hour of your day? Who will you be, between your failings and the...

Sitting across the aisle on the B train I look at the row of weary faces various shapes, sizes, colors, ages, a horizontal explication of...

I have been given this existence, these years on this Earth, to accept what has come into my lifetime — wars, loves, trucks, betrayals,...

Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days' worth of rice in my bag; a bundle of twigs by the fireplace. Why...

Do not force the healing, my love. Healing is always unforced. It happens when the conditions are right. When there is just enough love,...

Because the eye has a short shadow or it is hard to see over heads in the crowd? If everyone else seems smarter but you need your own...

Here is a relationship booster that is guaranteed to work: Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid make your eyes light up...