“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...

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...

How to work with grasping - in the moment Whilst theory can be helpful, the beauty of these teachings is that they are meant to be...

Dear friends, There’s uplift in my heart as I write to you, it has been a while! I’ve returned from a period of personal retreat where...

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...

One way to support less phone use is using a grayscale filter to eliminate the visual attraction of colors. The brain is naturally drawn...

Based on the teachings of Chris Germer (founder of the Mindful Self-Compassion programme): 3 key paradoxes that we understand when we...

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...