We can step out of our small sense of self and awaken to this reality. One of the reasons people get confused about freedom, enlightenment, and liber….

If you can sit quietly after difficult news; if in financial downturns you remain perfectly calm; if you can see your neighbors travel to fantastic p….

The trouble is that you think you have time..

Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels..

At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?.

As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, 'This is what I am, it is a f….

When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing..

Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain..

The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of….

Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated..

The longing for initiation is universal and for modern youth, it is a desperate need. When nothing is offered in the way of spiritual initiation to p….

We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our ….

Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love..

Refraining from stealing: care with material goods. Undertake for one week to act on every single thought of generosity that arises spontaneously in ….

In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while relinquis….

Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice ….

To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free..

You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows hon….

The questions asked at the end of lie are very simple ones: Did I love well? Did I love the people around me, my community, the earth, in a deep way?….

Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and ….

The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The purpose is to work directly with ….