“You often say, “I would give, but only to the deserving.” The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pastures. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.” Kahlil Gibran The great and fierce mystic William Blake said, There is no...
“I begin to realize that in inquiring about my own origin and goal, I am inquiring about something other than myself. In this very realization, I begin to recognize the origin and goal of the world.” Martin Buber In loving ourselves, we love the world. For just as...
“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” Albert Einstein There is no end to worry, because there is no end to what exists out of view, beyond our very small eyes. So worry is a way...
“If you want to be truly understood, you need to say everything three times, in three different ways. Once for each ear and once for the heart.” Paula Underwood Spencer For years I felt so unheard that when asked a question after speaking my heart, I’d take it as a...
“To reach Accord, just say, “Not Two!.” Seng Ts’an Almost fourteen hundred years ago, one of the first Chinese sages, we know of offered this brief retort to those who pestered him for advice – “Not Two!” This reply is as pertinent as it is mysterious. To make sense...
