Once you realize you were born to be a dancer, the music arises wherever you are.

The meal after a sacred meal is also a sacred meal.

Mindful cooking is one of the most potent paths to compassion.

A buddha traveling east on the road passes a buddha traveling west on the road. Neither notices.

The body is not 'superimposed' on the mind, heart, spirit, soul... It is more 'sub-present' - to all of these. The body ...

Everyone you meet holds up a mirror to your true self. If you are listening, then you will meet someone who holds both a mirror and a floo...

Live -      -Right between your ears      -Just behind your eyes      -Always in front of the past      -Rooted in Earth below      -Gr...

We are...      - blind until we see...      - slaves until we're free...      - ghosts until we learn to be...

And at the Paris Book Festival: The Antidote to Time: Lessons from the Dream Honorable Mention: Spiritual An Amazingly Kind Universe H...

My two most recent books were awarded "Finalist" status in the National Indie Excellence Awards. The Antidote to Time: L...

Drop by drop, the bucket slowly fills. Very suddenly, it is overflowing!

My latest book, An Amazingly Kind Universe , is now available. This tale recounts a fun little hitchhiking journey I took in 1983. Enjoy! ...

Three hermits sat at the opening to their cave, absorbed in their quiet contemplations. One day a beautiful bird came by and sang a lovely...

The thief enters the empty house. Room by room, he searches. There is nothing to gain. There is nothing to lose. Long after, the thief r...

This whimsical poem was written by the character of 'Sonny Man' - hitchhiker and 'professional beggar' - in Sweet Unpleasant...

Given: -2 groups, A and B. -A and B are reference groups of identity. (In Buddhism, the flaw  - thinking we "exist from our own s...

Two birds waited for the sun to rise. Said one, "Soon, I shall eat." Said the other, "Already, I sing!"

In Zen Buddhism, the notion of 'beginner's mind' - a state of receptivity - has been written about extensively. I was wonderin...

Bread feeds us. We are nourished and sustained. Love is our bread. Simplicity of the heart compels us to discover in our bread simple mean...

Tibet's patron saint, Padmasambhava, said: "Though my View is as spacious as the sky, my actions and respect for cause and effec...

Four pairs of polar opposites are identified as "mundane" concerns. One is defiled by the mundane concerns if one's motivati...

It is said that the lynx, the beautiful wild cat of the vast northern boreal forest, may wander its entire life, never retracing its steps. ...

Until we actually love our enemies, Our love of family and friends will be quite limited. (Actually, one of the most stunning aspects of ...

Let us touch the light We know shines behind the darkness between the stars. And if not that Then the light of the stars themselves An...

Every person has both a personal ocean of fear which they must master, and the collective one in which we are all forced to swim for at lea...