Submit to Love

Part of the quote on my Hafiz calendar for May: Submit to love without thinking . . . What could this mean? When the Reality is that everything, […]
Humanity’s Most Urgent Challenge

Earth Day: April 22, 2018 I am not contained between my hat and boots. — Walt Whitman On spiritual retreat with me in California during Holy Week, I passed my […]
Toward a New Velvet, Vulnerable, Revolution

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be […]
The Pause Between Stimulus and Response

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. — […]
Dawning

“It has always seemed to me, ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, I was very near to a kingdom of ideal beauty. Between it and me hung only […]