Category: Quotes

Silence is a true phenomenon that consists of far more than stillness and quiet. . . . Silence is experienced bodily. . . . We…

There are two ways we can look at the many distracting forces that keep us from Silence. One way is to see them as they…

We have a strong tendency to imagine Silence as the absence of sound. This imagination deprives Silence of being anything in itself and makes it…

Almost all humans have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) of the mind, which is why so many people become fearful, hate-filled, and wrapped around their negative…

In Jesus, God has put up a “Gone Fishing” sign on the religion shop. He has done the whole job in Jesus once and for…

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…