“The same stream of life that runs through the world, runs through my veins.” Rabindranath Tagore We are so achievement-oriented that we often surge right by the true value of relating to what’s before us, because we think that accomplishing things will complete us,...
Now there’s nothing left but to keep dancing. I don’t know if it is human nature or the way of life on Earth, but we seldom become all of who we are until forced to it. Some say that something in us rises to the occasion, that there is, as Hemingway called it, “a...
If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery comes from the loss of perspective. We begin so aware and grateful. The sun somehow hangs there in the sky. The little bird sings. The miracle of life just happens. Then we stub our toe, and in that moment of pain, the...
Until the heart becomes an inlet, it cannot be free. It is true; there is such sadness in the world. But there is a difference between feeling the pain of things breaking, ending or drifting apart, and the sharper pain that comes from measuring the inevitable events...
“Where two deliberate, love is slight. Whoever loved, not having loved at first sight.” Christopher Marlowe The true power of love at first sight is often missed because we insist on limiting its meaning to the sweep of falling into another person upon first meeting....
