Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being tak...
Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses...
In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely pres...
The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, wh...
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones,...
When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a jour...
We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiot...
My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to...
Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for thi...
When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relati...
