Live for the air after pain and there will be no reason to run. Hippocrates said that pleasure is the absence of pain. Anyone who has ever suffered knows this is a deep truth. When I fell into the gauntlet of tests that awaited after the pronouncement that I had...
“The eyes experience less stress when they can look upon a wider horizon.” R.D. Chin Whether it be physics or architecture or Eastern forms of meditation or Western forms of prayer, every field of inquiry affirms the fact that the wider our view, the less isolated we...
“This night will pass. Then we have work to do. Everything has to do with loving and not loving.” Rumi Very often, when hurt or depressed or anxious, we encounter powerful feelings like ghosts without a body, trying to pour themselves into us, trying to dominate our...
“Even the clearest water seems opaque at great depth.” Joel Agee Each of us is like a great, untamed sea, obedient to deeper currents that are seldom visible. Knowing this gives us three insights with keeping in our awareness. First, we must consider that the deepest...
“We wander and think no one will ever find us. And lifting our sorry head, we are next to each other.” Mark Nepo We imagine that so many conditions are prerequisite to finding love, when all that is required is that, like a man stepping from a boat to a dock, we step...
