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People want me to tell them success stories. I understand this. They are the stories you want to tell, after all. So why does my…

Pema Chodron, an ordained Buddhist nun, writes of compassion and suggests that its truest measure lies not in our service of those on the margins,…

“Behold the one beholding you and smiling.”  It is precisely because we have such an overactive disapproval gland ourselves that we tend to create God…

We may need to consider a little abstinence from our automatic, reflexive responses of being helpful to others.  For some of us, doing this may…

Admit something: Everyone you see, you say to them, “Love me.” Of course you do not do this out loud; Otherwise, Someone would call the…

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You…

Open the door to us, and we will see the orchards, We will drink their cold water where the moon has left its trace. The…

The capacity to pay attention to an afflicted person is something very rare, very difficult; it is nearly a miracle. It is a miracle. Nearly…

We are so busy, so occupied with many little things, that we are blind to the one great thing. Only in the pauses between things,…