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...

It is said that before entering the sea a river trembles with fear. She looks back at the path she has traveled, from the peaks of the...

One of the great teachings in spiritual life is this: It doesn’t matter what is happening.  What matters is how we respond. How we...

Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean — the one who has flung...

When God said, "My hands are yours," I saw that I could heal any creature in this world; I saw that the divine beauty in each heart is...

"Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is what is happening. We may feel hostile or angry...

Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow— even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arriving to be a bud on a Spring...

The peace that we are looking for is not peace that crumbles as soon as there is difficulty or chaos. Whether we’re seeking inner peace...

"This listening to ourselves is what we want to be doing everyday – how am I doing, what's happening in my mind, my body, my feelings....

You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet: it lives in the other...

Though we find clear waters ranging to the vast blue sky of autumn, how can that compare with the hazy moon on a spring night? Some...

Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out. by Izumi Shikibu (Original Language...

Out Of a great need We are all holding hands And climbing. Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too...

The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though...