I See You! I Am Here! For centuries, African Bushmen have greeted each other in this way. When the one becomes aware of his brother or sister coming out of the brush, he exclaims, “I See You!” and then the one approaching rejoices, “I Am Here!” This timeless bearing...
In seeking what is essential, we become essential. I have always been amazed how the deepest things are intangible: love, doubt, faith, confusion, peace, wisdom, passion. Where are they? They can’t be held in the hand like fruit or turned in the lap like pages of a...
As long as we sing, the pain of the world cannot claim our lives. Through cancer, through growing up in America, through learning about the innumerable struggles for freedom around the world, all different but the same, through being with the people of South Africa,...
“Integrity is the ability to listen to a place inside oneself that doesn’t change, even though the life that carries it may change.” Rabbi Jonathan Omer-Man Much of our journey throughout this book has been about discovering that place inside and cultivating the...
If all I have is Now, where will I look for Joy? Without hope for the future, without hope that things will change, with no hope of finding what’s been lost, and no hope of restoring the past, with only the risk to crack open all that has hardened about me, what will...
