Awakened In advanced age, my health worsening, I woke up in the middle of the night, and experienced a feeling of happiness so intense and perfect that in all my life I had only felt its premonition. And there was no reason for it. It didn’t obliterate consciousness; the past…

Now we are beyond the narcissism of youth, above the survival struggles of young adulthood, beyond the grind of middle age, and prepared to look beyond ourselves into the very heartbeat of life. We can do what our souls demand that fully human beings do. This is the moment for…

As it turns out, this is one thing all great men and women of history have in common. Like oxygen to a fire, obstacles became fuel for the blaze that was their ambition. Nothing could stop them; they were (and continue to be) impossible to discourage or contain. Every impediment…

The hardest thing of all to see is what is really there. J.A. Baker, author of The Peregrine “Having these kinds of experiences of nature gives us a way to get outside of the self and our preoccupation with the self in a way that really is the path to…

We were together, I forget the rest. Walt Whitman, Poet “It is such a simple quote and it means so much because at the end of our lives or at the end of this experience, all that we really remember is the feeling of being together and anything else and…

“Resilience is our capacity to cope. It’s our capacity to respond to disappointments, difficulties, and disasters in our lives in flexible, adaptive, and skillful ways. Often, we have learned ways of responding to life events that are not so adaptive or skillful, but they’re part of our unconscious conditioned repertoire.…

“In New York, everybody is a wise guy. I was in New York  during Hurricane Sandy. It was humor that kept us alive. We couldn’t eat much, we had to have breakfast for ten days in a row because the restaurants were closed. But everybody was joking. They were putting…

“Creativity has nothing to do with talent or discipline; it’s about noise and quieting your mind… Every single thing you do as a creative person is one choice after another. Put the red in, put the blue in, put the comma in, and take the comma out. One choice after…

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available – not only to us, but to all human beings. Chögyam Trungpa Tibetan Buddhist Master   “I structured my book So Far…

He looked at his Soul with a Telescope. What seemed all irregular, he saw and showed to be beautiful Constellations; and he added to the Consciousness hidden worlds within worlds. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge   “The passage explores the remarkable ability of humans to…