recently, i’ve been returning to the same thread—of “he gives and he takes away.” nothing is mine to keep. all that i have: the opportunities, career, material possessions, and people i hold dear: these were afforded to me as blessings by no earned disposition of my own. while i am conscious how i have worked for and ta... See more

And across my life of conversation, I have learned that wisdom and wholeness emerge in moments precisely like ours, though ours is writ large, where human beings have to hold seemingly opposing realities in a creative tension and interplay, power and frailty, birth and death, pain and hope, mystery and conviction, brokenness and beauty, calm and fi... See more

This, I believe, is the great project of spirituality and religion. To attune ourselves more closely to what Reality wants from us, and to take part in the ecstatic immersion of reaching towards those wants.