“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These are your greatest treasures. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.” Lao-Tzu At first, we might ask, how can being compassionate to yourself reconcile all beings...
“Older now, you find holiness in anything that continues.” Naomi Shihab Nye The longer I wake on this Earth, the louder the quiet things speak to me. The more I experience and survive, the more I find truth in the commonalties we all share. The more pain softens me,...
“Empower me to exercise the authority of honesty, and be a participant in the difficult ordinariness of now.” Ted Loder Once there were two friends, and one was very daring in the way she met experience, always trying new things, always breaking new paths. The other...
If pulled, grief is a thread that will leave us naked in song. A friend took me to the redwoods, where the trees talk with God, and it was a thick-barked tree five or six hundred years old that made me think Grandma was near. It’s been twelve years since she died,...
Wherever we stop is the summit. I was climbing Trail Ridge Road through the Rocky Mountains, determined to make the Continental Divide, when two sharp feelings pierced me almost at once. I, who have never had any trouble with heights, felt rushes of fear as I drove on...
