“To direct the mind towards the basic unity of all things and to divert it from the seizing of differences – therein lies bliss.” Tojo-Bindu Upanishad The eye can see what we have in common or focus on what keeps us apart. And the heart can feel what joins us with...
As long as we see what has come to pass as being unfair, we’ll be a prisoner of what might have been. This is a very painful issue to discuss for most of us, because so much of how we see the world hinges on a sense of fairness and justice, those truly noble human...
Before fixing what you’re looking at, check what you’re looking through. It was a beautiful sun filled day. I had driven 300 miles to see her. She was ninety – and had been in one room for close to eight months. I was her first-born grandson and she was so...
“I think I could turn and live with animals. They do not sweat and whine about their condition. Not one is dissatisfied.” Walt Whitman It was a very small thing, watching a robin carry a twig too big for its nest. It tried once, then twice, to use it, and somehow,...
Like clouds moving in water, problems make me forget I am clear. Water reflects everything it encounters. This is so commonplace that we think water is blue, when, in fact, it has no color. Amazingly, while soft and flowing, water – as ocean or lake or even as the...
