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 champion of the world You mayContinue reading

The 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 waves of leaves and flowers. It is the sameContinue reading

There is a state of mind of absolute calmness, where the mind remains absolutely still, quiet and calm like the full moon. It spreads its light everywhere, the cool light of the moon. That is the state which is potentially in all of us even though it may not be active. To contact that andContinue reading

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 the right place at just the rightContinue reading

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… and then it shone… And I said, ‘Now, you see it shines with love.’ So love takes many forms, doesn’t it? Duty, commitment, caringness about everything…Continue reading

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 realize, once you accept that your problem is bigger thanContinue reading

I swear I see now that every thing has an eternal soul! The trees have, rooted in the ground….the weeds of the sea have….the animals. I swear I think there is nothing but immortality! That the exquisite scheme is for it, and the nebulous float is for it, and the cohering is for it, AndContinue reading

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 you not to be? You are a child of God.Continue reading

(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 big blue arrow, “this way.” I would see theseContinue reading