If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don’t abide in borrowed certainty. There is no […]
Long ago the first lapidaries or gemcutters used primitive methods to polish the exterior of rough rock material. They would fill rough textured bags with raw unrefined pieces. Shaking it […]
Northeast of Bodhgaya, India is a terrain of rocky hills and brush populated by slums. Situated inside one of these hills is the Praghbodhi Cave, the place where Siddhartha Guatama […]
On a friend’s invitation, I signed up for a deep-sea fishing expedition off the shores of Corpus Christi, Texas prior to returning for my sophomore year in college. Far into […]
It was painful to watch. Activist and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver visits a family in Huntington, West Virginia – a town given the label as the unhealthiest in all of […]
…the time between one occurrence and another …the period of time between now and when something is supposed to happen. Recently, when meditating on this common phrase, it occurred to […]
DialogueYou may have read or heard from a variety of sources that we humans have something upwards of 60,000 thoughts a day. 60,000. I’m not sure how one actually calculates […]
Those who experience the unity of life see their own self in all beings and all beings in their own self. – Buddha Imagine an endless net where in each […]
You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.– Rumi We are all in hospice. From the moment we arrive through the portal of birth, we begin the journey […]
The secret to having it all is knowing you already do. – Unknown If the gift of Life is already made, then our part must be to accept, receive, believe […]