Within Man Is The Soul Of The Whole; The Wise Silence; The Universal Beauty

“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”

If we are getting the sense that we might like to take a step along the spiritual path, maybe we don’t need to delay too long.

Likewise for those already on the path of training, if you have tasted the Dharma directly, had a glimpse of the Ox, redouble your efforts. It’s one thing to see it and a different thing to surrender ourselves to it fully. W... See more

Our English word blessing is related to the French word blessée , meaning wounded, or blessure , meaning wound.

The wound is a blessing; the blessing comes as a wound.

The wound wants to change us. We cannot heal and stay the same. To change we have to surrender to what we do not yet know. We are going into something unknown. That is why it can be ha... See more

“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”

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Franz Kafka

Scrolling displaces observation, shuts out occasions for self-generated thought, silences out-of-the-blue invitations. Checking the phone reroutes the discomfort of blankness and emptiness. It stoppers authentic—often anxious—waiting. And, even more disturbing, scrolling narrows the field of my curiosity. I take what I find there; I don’t make adve... See more

At the same time, the skills I have had to develop, and the ways I have had to transform, in order to survive the past four years have made me a wiser, kinder person. I have greater capacity and compassion. I am less dissociated, I seem to feel everything more deeply and vividly. I feel more connected to what is happening to the earth in this devas... See more

Sometimes, I picture myself walking in a whole field of Ohio wildflowers and I think about what I've been missing my whole life.