Occupation: Author Birth: 1953
We become what we love. Whatever you are giving your time and attention to, day after day, is the kind of person you will eventually become..
We are called to be strong companions and clear mirrors to one another, to seek those who reflect with compassion and a keen eye how we are doing, wh….
Some of us have a hard time believing that we are actually able to face our own pain. We have convinced ourselves that our pain is too deep, too frig….
Many of us incorrectly assume that a spiritual life begins when we change what we normally do in our daily life. We feel we must change our job, our ….
As we explore the nature of our gift, our goal is to move toward this kind of giving: cheerful giving that flows gently and easily, kingly giving tha….
Our lives are made of these moments. Simple words and actions, taken together, weave a single day, and our days become our life. Every gesture is a s….
To pray is no small thing. It is nothing less than a sacred pilgrimage into the heart of the whole world..
What is at the center of your life? Carefully examine where you spend your attention, your time. Look at your appointment book, your daily schedule .….
In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important choices w….
As Gandhi wisely points out, even as we serve others we are working on ourselves; every act, every word, every gesture of genuine compassion naturall….
Every day, we are given countless opportunities to offer our gifts to those at work, in our families, our relationships.... If you give less than wha….
Because we do not rest we lose our way...Poisoned by the hypnotic belief that good things come only through unceasing determination and tireless effo….
For thousands of years we have gathered in circle--around fires, around bodies, around altars--because we can't do this alone..
Even in the middle of a hurricane, the bottom of the sea is calm. As the storm rages and the winds howl, the deep waters sway in gentle rhythm, a lig….
The heart of most spiritual practices is simply this: Remember who you are. Remember what you love. Remember what is sacred. Remember what is true. R….
When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true….
What if the healing of the world utterly depends on the ten-thousand invisible kindnesses we offer simply and quietly throughout the pilgrimage of ea….
Sabbath requires surrender. If we only stop when we are finished with all our work, we will never stop, because our work is never completely done. Wi….
If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbath— our pneumonia, our cancer, our heart attack, our accid….
Every single choice we make, no matter how small, is the ground where who we are meets what is in the world. And the fruits of that essential relatio….
When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we are on war time, mobilized….