Everybody feels a little bit of an itch all the time. There’s a background hum of edginess, boredom, restlessness. The Buddhist explanation is that we feel this uneasiness because we’re always trying to get ground under our feet and it never quite works. We’re always looking for a permanent reference…

I am a feather on the breath of God. ~Saint Hildegard of Bingen * Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth…

To expound and propagate concepts is simple, to drop all concepts is difficult and rare. — Nisargadatta Maharaj * We as Buddhists believe that benefiting others is an act of kindness, and the first thing that comes to our mind, as an act of kindness, is giving alms to the…

I think it’s a deep consolation to know that spiders dream, that monkeys tease predators, that dolphins have accents, that lions can be scared silly by a lone mongoose, that otters hold hands, and ants bury their dead. That there isn’t their life and our life. Nor your life and…

Without working on emotions, spirituality is just a castle of cards. The source of most diseases is the mind, so the mind can overcome most diseases. — Nikola Tesla * I beseech you, creative intellectuals the world over, look at the pursuit of knowledge like a Buddhist monk looks at…

Whether you are in ego consciousness or unity consciousness is not really the point. I have met many people who have easy access to advanced states of consciousness. Though for some people this may come very easily, I also notice that many of these people are no freer than anyone…

Do not wait until you are dying to understand your spiritual nature. If you do it now, you will discover resources of kindness and compassion you didn’t know you had. It is from this mind of intrinsic wisdom and compassion that you can truly benefit others. ~ Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche…

𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒎, 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂 𝒏𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒍, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰, 𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂 𝒇𝒆𝒘 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔, 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒔 𝒏𝒐 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕 𝒈𝒖𝒏𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒐𝒔𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆.

I sometimes say in sermons that the church is in need of a reformation more radical than anything Luther or Calvin could have imagined… Art can also help us understand unthinkable things like the elemental nature of water, wind, fire and earth. We are born out of these elements and…