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Be Kind to Yourself
The life-altering time we're all in carries its potential blessings. The extremity and uncertainty of the pandemic may attune us at last to the matter of what it is to be kind to ... Continue Reading
Taking Refuge in the Now
What is it to be in the now? It's to gently allow awareness to take in whatever is immediate, inside yourself and in the present-moment scene. It's to register what is being actually ... Continue Reading
A Useful Spiritual Practice
The spiritual orientation to life is often set in motion by the desire to address painful inner forces like anxiety, frustration, and disappointment. The natural wish is to soothe oneself, to settle the ... Continue Reading
Real Life Consciously Lived
What is it to live authentically, to be at no distance from the life you're in? It's to know what matters to you, to have a background awareness of where you've come from, ... Continue Reading
Granting Grief Its Space
What does grief ask of a human being? When the heart is aching to break, what's to be done?
A breaking heart brings a surge of pain. Whether physical or heartfelt, ... Continue Reading
Hide and Seek
If a person is fortunate, the question will come. What am I, at my essence? Is there something deeper than the daily struggle to satisfy and solve?
In rare moments of brave authenticity, ... Continue Reading
Awakening: A Whole New Life
Awakening is a beginning, not a triumphant conclusion. There might be the impression that once awakening has occurred, nothing remains to happen -- to develop, unfold, blossom. This could not be further from ... Continue Reading
Prayer
What is it to pray? At its essence, what is prayer? Sometimes in explorations with seekers, the subject will come up. Do you pray? I’ve occasionally been asked, or Do you think I ... Continue Reading
Think Nothing of It
A moment of life occurs. You're doing something, or observing or listening, your senses engaged. A split second later, at a subtle distance from the experience itself, you assign it meaning. These two ... Continue Reading
Practical and Spiritual Wisdom, in a Single Gesture
How can you take care of yourself in a difficult moment (including this one), and at the same time come to know — and rest in — your essential nature?
- Focus ... Continue Reading
The Great Teacher
Here it is, the teacher of them all. Every blessed one of us at “school” nowadays, morning-noon-and-night.
How might it be possible to orient to the coronavirus and its widespread disruptions, ... Continue Reading
What Happens at Awakening?
When a person wakes up, what is it they awaken to? And what do they awaken from?
Awakening is about discovering the nature of what is real — what inside you ... Continue Reading
Finding Peace in Hard Times
Unconditional Love and the Surrender to Fear
We ache all our lives to be loved unconditionally. To be seen through and through as we truly are, without judgment or any attempt to alter. To be entirely held in that vast ... Continue Reading
The Blessings of Surrender
When you allow yourself to sink into the reality of something challenging, or to grant a painful feeling its necessary space, in that moment you are really and truly alive. Because you're no ... Continue Reading
A Healthy Lifestyle
What Is It to Really Live?
A Good Day to Die
Estrangement
A Healthy Sense of Self
Living in the Now
Mind Suffering vs. Life Pain
The Value and Limitation of Religion
No Separation
The Gold Within Us
Attention is gold, a commodity of priceless value. For it is via attention that we come to know reality, to sense what we deeply are. That “knowing” is not of the mind. It ... Continue Reading
Being a Parent
Being Judgmental
Taking a Fresh Look at Hope
What You Are
Spiritual Fertility
The Breakthrough Shift: Lost and Found
So much seeking is misguided. Many get hopelessly lost in the impression that somebody else “has it” while they do not. Awakeness is made into something extraordinary — something outside the one longing ... Continue Reading
A Life Not Wasted
The Divine Piñata
The Disappearing Act of the Self
The Secret Room Where Peace Lives
The Thief in the Night
Interview on Spiritual Teachers Podcast
Timeless Presence
Audio of The Freedom of Being: At Ease with What Is
Discovering Jesus
What Is Real? What Are You?
Spiritual Vigilance: Give It a Rest
The Unfolding of Awakening
It’s a rich thing to contemplate: what it’s like to no longer identify with body, history, opinions, thoughts — and yet to still be a person. To live a life, love people, do ... Continue Reading
Kindness to Self
Living in the Constantly-Dying Moment
The Embodied Expression of Consciousness
Without Boundaries
Rock, Sand, Air
“It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.” There is ... Continue Reading
Consciousness and Chronic Pain
Life Without Definition
Force of Nature
The Drunk Carpenter and Life Without a Map
Being Born Again
What I Wish for You
What Happens at Awakening?
Suffering: That Extra Something
The Line Dividing Fear from Love
Transformative Suffering
Life on the Tongue
Watch What Really Happens
The Truest, Realest You
A Child Again
Meditating All Day Long
Why does a person meditate? What does that mean, to meditate? When someone sits for meditation, on a given occasion or as a practice, what expectations are in the picture?
... Continue ReadingThe Ultimate Betrayal
The Moment the Lord Has Made
What Am I?
Being a Smart Animal
Resting from Mind-Caused Suffering
You Are Not Precious
An Encyclopedia of a Peach
Talking to God
What You Can Do to Wake Up: Not This
A Locked Door
Looking at Thought
Looking at thought . . .
... Continue ReadingBeing Conscious
Joy in the Face of Suffering
Anger as a Pointer
Life Untainted by Thought
Degrees of Consciousness
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