We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but...
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. Rabindranath Tagore You may be an ambassador to England or France You may like to gamble, you might like to dance You may be the heavyweight...
he same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous...
Perhaps I am stronger than I think. Thomas Merton, The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton Some days it's tough being human. Yes, there are those days when it feels like the sun is smiling upon us and we just can't make a mis-step. We end up at just...
I was polishing this chrome around the top of the stove. It was clean, but not really shiny. So I took a steel wool and I started scrubbing it...
Your salvation in this area lies not in resisting the truth of your powerlessness before food, but rather in accepting it. For this acceptance leads you straight into the arms of God, however you think of Him or whatever you understand Him to be. You...
I swear I see now that every thing has an eternal soul! The trees have, rooted in the ground...
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are...
(originally published in April, 2013. Thanks again, Marie.) There's this guy in New York--I say it's a guy, it could be a woman--last spring there was somebody who was drawing on the sidewalk in blue chalk. And all it said was "Happiness"--a big "Happiness" with a...
Tomorrow's bills are not the problem. The dissolution of the physical body is not a problem. Loss of Now is the problem, or rather: the core delusion that turns a mere situation, event, or emotion into a personal problem and into suffering. Loss of Now is loss of Being. Eckhart...