Occupation: Poet Birth: July 17, 1937 Death: January 17, 2016
Letting the last breath come. Letting the last breath go. Dissolving, dissolving into vast space, the light body released from its heavier form….
Healing comes when we meet our wounded places with compassion..
Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been..
Love is not what we become but who we already are.
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?.
Death is just a change in lifestyles..
Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do. It is also the most fruitful. To heal means to meet ourselves in a new way -- in the….
Healing is bringing mercy and Awareness into that which we have held in judgment and fear..
When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes compassion. To train in compassion, then, ….
Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself.
Wanting things to be otherwise is the very essence of suffering. We almost never directly experience what pain is because our reaction to it is so im….
If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in ….
Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything is im….
When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion..
Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closin….
Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought..
To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear..
Our work is to keep our hearts open in hell..
Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness..
The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life..
It is trust in our vast 'don't know' that allows room for the truth, that allows the next intuition to float to the surface..