While there is still time

Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit the evasions. Stop g...

                                      This Morning I watched the sun moving round the kitche...

"Imagine yourself a caterpillar. There's an awful shrug and, suddenly, You're beautiful for as long as you live." Ste...

Ode I. 11 Leucon, no one’s allowed to know his fate, Not you, not me: don’t ask, don’t hunt for answers In tea leaves or palms. Be patie...

I Remember Galileo I remember Galileo describing the mind as a piece of paper blown around by the wind, and I loved the sight of it sti...

A Spiritual Journey And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by...

A Room A room does not turn its back on grief. Anger does not excite it. Before desire, it neither responds nor ...

Which one to try first? In the book of spells I do not find the one that helps you forget what you want to forget. There is one for ma...

"Ichigo Ichie literally means “one opportunity, one encounter.” The terms is often translated as “for this time only,” “never again,” ...

Expect Nothing Expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. become a stranger To need of pity Or, if compassion be...

Love Letters Every day, priests minutely examine the Law And endlessly chant complicated sutras. Before doing that, ...

Listen. Put on lightbreak. Waken into miracle. W. S. Graham

Two Cats Katha Pollitt It's better to be a cat than to be a human. Not because of their much-noted grace and beauty— their beauty wins...

"If you can’t seem to make yourself happy, do little things to make other people happy. This is a very effective magic trick. Focus on...

“Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actual...