Reading Time: 7.5 Minutes Facing life’s contradictions by contemplating Euripides is an opportunity for us to heal ourselves as well as our bewildered democracy . . . Democracy & Contradiction In Euripides’s… Read more »
Who Am I – Practicing Self Inquiry
Reading Time: Just under 7 minutes Who am I is not a question one typically asks . It’s more of a religious query — one asked by a person in crisis… Read more »
Open to Life in All Its Forms
Reading Time: Just under 2 minutes As humans, rightly or wrongly, we often yearn for more. We want more life. More friendship. More humanity. More intimacy. The Integrity of… Read more »
The Wonderful Matter of Trees
Reading Time: 4 minutes They exemplify the spiritual principles of care, love, trust, and respect — i.e. thoughtfulness — as being beneficial for all sentient beings. Just outside of the… Read more »
To Study the Way
Reading Time: Just under 3 minutes What is a suitable, lasting, reliable standard for life? What, in short, is the Way? This morning I went for a run on Houston street…. Read more »
Attending to Time
Reading Time: Just over 7 minutes Live deeply, broadly, and grandly. Be spiritually ambitious. Engage with life. Act. Ask questions. Answer them. Test your answers . . . “Yes, all that might… Read more »
What is the Language of Autumn?
Reading Time: Just over 4 minutes We prepare for the year’s end, or next year’s beginning, with hope and energy in our hearts: reading and writing or preparing the garden… Read more »
Summer Retreat
We are off to Kyoto for summer retreat and we’ll be back in New York on July 26th. We will still be checking voicemail, email and text messages. The next article… Read more »
Rilke’s Temple: Rilke 4/4
Reading Time: 8 minutes Rilke has given us words to protect those parts of ourselves that help us stay open to fundamental questions about life. And should we lose this capacity,… Read more »
Rilke’s Noble Lie: Rilke 3/4
Reading time: 8 minutes The notion of a noble lie, or the magnificent myth raises important questions for anyone interested in thinking about how to live . . . Rilke… Read more »