“Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything and between the two my life flows.” Nisargadatta Maharaj Having survived the inhumanity of the Holocaust and the death of her husband, Dr. Elkhanan Elkes, the revered elder of the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania,...
The first breath is always life-giving. Slowing how we think and feel and take in the world is directly related to being centered. The wisdom traditions all have some form of meditation or prayer that is aimed at slowing us into this center, where the very pace of...
A flag goes boneless as it assumes the shape of the wind that snaps it and so I love. The lesson of the flag challenges our trust in the fabric of our lives. It asks us not to resist the wind of spirit that comes along. For the vital energies of life come upon us...
I envy the tree, how it reaches but never holds. Things that matter come and go, but being touched and feeling life move on, we tend to cling and hold on, not wanting anything to change. Of course, this fails and things do change. Often, we are stubborn enough to go...
“Our life experiences will have resonances within our inner most being, so that we will feel the rapture of being alive.” Joseph Campbell Recently, a friend said to me, “Everyone I know has to work obsessively and is worried about losing their jobs, being downsized...
