Occupation: Author Birth: August 1, 1945
We have all had serendipitous moments - the most unlikely meetings out of nowhere - that can happen when we have this quality of deep acceptance towa….
If you allow yourself to fully feel the life you're in - not conceptually, but viscerally in the present moment - then that is inherently meaningful..
I bring my attention to my hands on the steering wheel and notice how the chatter in my mind begins to fall away as my breathing slows. I'm awake and….
Time, for example, is intimately connected with the goddess Kali, which partly accounts for her destructive nature. Energy - in Einstein's equation….
Be willing to be where you actually are. In my experience, that is the most inherently meaningful experience you can have..
Day by day, tiny specks of us float away..
The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed..
When we fall utterly, something gathers us up. But our falling must be without reservation, without expectation, without hope, though not hopeless. Y….
I've come to see that the way my life shows up is actually my purpose..
The body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment..
Everything constantly changes..
Struggle has a natural place in our life, but the fight or flight syndrome is often false struggle. There are times for that but we can have that rea….
The ego, as our familiar sense of self, seems predicated on fear. The fear that we might not make it, that we might not get where we want to go. But ….
Practice remembrance of the present moment, again and again..
It's the bringing together of knowledge and wisdom that is a great part - perhaps the greatest part - of our life's journey..
I certainly spent many years in my early life chasing all over the globe for meaning and purpose. I'd feel like I'd found it, then it would fade away….
The love of someone else is more accessible or more possible if one lives with a sense of loving embrace towards oneself because that extends out int….
The American culture especially, and Western culture in general, urges us to not only become the best that we can be, but also win against the compet….
The capacity to become aware of the givens of our existence - such as change - and to actually welcome those as just part of our human experience rel….
I don't think one can run out and try and chase love..
If you want to know your purpose, look at the unfolding of your life, because that is your gift to the world. It may not look spectacular, but nobody….