People are waking up in their homes - without conferences. They're waking up because life is waking them up, not because of some conference called "B….

I have no idea about what death is, but because I have been in association with it so intimately, I have a much greater sense of the value of life an….

This simple thing has not been that easy to learn. it certainly went against everything I had been taught since I was very young. I thought people li….

A shaman is someone who has a wound that will not heal. He sits by the side of the road with his open wound exposed..

Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever..

There are few master teachers in life. ... But there are many who can listen to life so well that they can hear the vastness in everything and in you….

We are, in a certain way, defined as much by our potential as by its expression. There is a great difference between an acorn and a little bit of wo….

I spent the first forty years of my life making major interventions into other people's lives, and I have an idea of the limitations of that method. ….

I had thought joy to be rather synonymous with happiness, but it seems now to be far less vulnerable than happiness. Joy seems to be a part of an unc….

A blessing is not something that one person gives another. A blessing is a moment of meeting, a certain kind of relationship in which both people inv….

I think that people get experiences, and out of those experiences come meaning and ideas. It's like watching a rose bush grow..

Most of us encounter a great deal more Mystery than we are willing to experience. Sometimes knowing life requires us to suspend disbelief, to recogn….

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns..

The way towards freedom from a situation often lies in acceptance of the situation..

Perhaps we can only truly serve those we are willing to touch, not only with our hands but with our hearts and even our souls. Professionalism has em….

The wisdom in the story of the most educated and powerful person is often not greater than the wisdom in the story of a child, and the life of a chil….

One of my patients told me that when she tried to tell her story people often interrupted her to tell her that they once had something just like that….

In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is our greatest….

Most people have come to prefer certain of lifes experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that may come wrap….