There are countless stories of people whose lives truly find their meaning after events force them to give up careers that they have been devoted to.
Being articulate is not a facility of language but a fidelity to vision. And so we are all articulate when finding the courage to say what we see.
Within Young Leaves Wrapped within young leaves: the sound of water. —SOSEKI This delicate observation by this Japanese poet is filled with the quiet hope that embedded in our nature, even as we begin...
Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows. —NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ
When we need it most, it is nearly impossible to see ourselves with compassion from the slit of a narrowed mind all tensed for battle.
We’re drawn to live in the world until the fire within meets the fire without. We’re drawn to move through all the invisible barriers to find what we love, to love what we love, and to save what we lo...
We cannot eliminate hunger, but we can feed each other. We cannot eliminate loneliness, but we can hold each other. We cannot eliminate pain, but we can live a life of compassion.
We are the stage and all the players.
To Marry One's Soul Being true to who we are means carrying our spirit like a candle in the center of our darkness. If we are to live without silencing or numbing essential parts of who we are, a vow...
Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are
These bodies are perishable, but the Dweller in these bodies is eternal. —BHAGAVAD-GITA
There is no tomorrow, only a string of todays. Still,
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. —MARCEL PROUST
The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So wh...
The only response to adversity or misunderstanding is to be more completely who we are—to share ourselves more.
The human soul is to God is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws. —BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
The heart doesn't know it's expanding with compassion anymore than a hawk spreading its swings knows it's being a hawk. Nor does someone acting out of love often realize they are being kind.
The Necessary Privilege Not to feel is to stop the heart from breathing. So often, we war against sadness as if it were an unwanted germ, and pine after happiness as if it were some promised Eden, who...
The Art of Facing Things What people have forgotten is what every salmon knows. —ROBERT CLARK
Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. —SENG-TS'AN