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...

Don’t meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself, rather do it as an act of love of deep warm...

Wayfarer, there is no path by Antonio Machado (translated by Ramiro Ortega) Wayfarer, your footprints are the only road; nothing else....

The human body, at peace with itself, Is more precious than the rarest gem. Cherish your body - it is yours this time only. The human...

“Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world...

“Sorrow and joy are woven inextricably together. When we distract ourselves from the reality of loss, we also distract ourselves from...

“Each time you meet an old emotional pattern with presence, your awakening to truth can deepen. There’s less identification with the...

You are not small. You are not unworthy. You are not insignificant. The universe wove you from a constellation, just so atom, every fibre...

We can still be crazy after all these years. We can still be angry after all these years. We can still be timid or jealous or full of...