It was—this was the secret, sudden thing—so delicious. Not knowing which way was which, or where the edges were. She was dissolved by it. She could drown right now and it would be a pleasure. “Night Swim”

half a moon and a crow’s glide fill the space between skyscrapers

All formations are impermanent. They are subject to birth and death. But remove the notions of birth and death, and this silence is called great joy. This Silence is Called Great Joy: A Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh

The way I work with these events in my own life is, I notice what occurs (and what I feel and what I learn) rather than trying to make a specific result. That in itself is fairly rare. “Noticing what happens” is the thing that does not usually happen. The Day of the Higher Cause […]

We really have just one job: To remain continually amazed at everything.

A great sense of tranquillity comes when we let go of the futile urge to control everything, and instead relate to each moment with openness and awareness. Happiness and Tranquillity – Jack Kornfield

I’m not entirely sure I know the difference between grief and depression.

It is strange to see everything in the Bible as a creation of the Spirit, which inspires those who write it, through different epochs. It is never thought, for example, that the works of Emerson, Whitman and Bernard Shaw have the same author. But the Hebrews took writers that were many miles and cen

Conscious grieving is an integral component of the maturity required to balance compassionate action with the discerning acceptance of our predicament. Welcome to the Planetary Hospice – Our World

There’s a modern tendency to dismiss the five precepts as Sunday-school rules bound to old cultural norms that no longer apply to modern society, but this misses the role that the Buddha intended for them: as part of a course of therapy for wounded minds. https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/NobleStrat

Ryan D. Tweney, professor, book collector, husband, father, and mentor, died February 7 in Pahrump, Nevada, aged 76. Born in Detroit, Ryan was raised by his mother Helene Tweney and grandmother Viola Marciniak, and educated at Cass Technical High School, the University of Chicago, and Wayne State Un

Let’s see, my Latin is poor, but I remember the phrase: “non in tempore sed cum tempore Deus creavit … I do not know what … ordinem mundi.” That means, “Not in time but with time God created the world.” To create the world is to create time. If not, people would ask, what did […]