I sense that he is not an alien persecuted and fleeing, but rather with an open chest, not thinking about anything, not yearning for anything, fully immersed in the peaceful, pure, near present. He is...

Without keeping up a merciless guard, day and night, the variety of forward opinions in this world could easily destroy one's sanity.

I have experienced life enough to realize that reality does not align with dreams, but its greatest joy now is to tell this reality that it does not need her and that her happiness is not linked to...

What we need to learn is always there before us, we just have to look around us with respect and attention in order to discover where God is leading us and which step we should take next.

When each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day—the sunrises.

Worry divides the mind. The biblical word for worry {merimnao} is a compound of two Greek words, merizo {"to divide"} and nous {"the mind"}. Anxiety splits our energy between today's priorities and...

Kale pe a, repeated my friend. It is an ancient Tibetan farewell when a caravan sets out to climb the high peaks. It means - go slowly if you wish to return.

There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. However far or long you plod, you are always in the same place: in the woods.

Today, no matter where or how you live, look upon your home through the eyes of Love. Walk around the rooms and offer thanks for the walls and roof that safely enclose you and yours. Pause for a...

As far as he can tell, that's what Odo spends most of his time doing: being in time, like one sits by the river, watching the water go by. It's a lesson hard learned, just to sit there and be.

To embrace the essence of Essentialism requires we replace these false assumptions with three core truths: "I choose to," "Only a few things really matter," and "I can do anything but not everything."...

You cannot judge the importance of things by the noise they make.

A life lived from the back seat, observed as it blurred by. An indifferent life.

Handle with care - everything - even the predators.

For a while the hobbits continued to talk and think of the past journey and of the perils that lay ahead; but such was the virtue of the land of Rivendell that soon all fear and anxiety was lifted...

It's remarkable, being alive. Being, once again, someone walking through a dust of blowing snow, passing the window of the liquor store, which offers an array of bottles surrounded by tiny blinking...

Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.

If you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the...

The feet bear the burden of the body, the head the burden of the mind, and the heart the burden of the spirit.

Try to understand where you are going and where you are, and it seems like your life has no meaning. But when you look back, the patterns emerge, and if you project yourself forward starting from...

The living deserve attention, too

If we want to live a Wholehearted life, we have to become intentional about cultivating sleep and play, and about letting go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as self-worth.

His horse stumbled in the tussocky ground and made him realize, then, how thoughtlessly fast he was riding... how thoughtlessly fast he was thinking.

Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan

Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes." "Maybe," he said, rubbing her forehead. "But don't worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an...

It's like wearing gloves every time we touch something, and then, forgetting we chose to put them on, we complain that nothing feels quite real.

New karma is being made all the time. When one acts with a positive motivation, goodness is furthered. When one acts out of negative motivation, negativity is furthered. We can recondition ourselves...