It has become extremely plausible that this trip between the maternity ward and the crematorium is what there is to life. But, when you consider this attitude, you know, what is the poetic counterpart of it …Man is a little germ, that lives on an unimportant rock ball, that revolves about an insignificant star on ...

When someone wishes for something on his deathbed, there is a certain moral obligation on the person to whom the wish is expressed, to fulfill it regardless of how hard it is to do so. A dying wish resembles what the person wanted the most in his life; a desire he held very strongly in his ...

You can be an do your best and still fail. You can be attractive and not get called back. You can be qualified and not get the job (just as you can be unqualified and get the job). Understanding that much of life is out of your control frees you from arrogance when things go rightly, and from total ...

You are constantly looking at your smartphone, you are up all night on social media, you are low on energy, you have a busy mind and you are considering doing meditation to find more balance in life. You have heard a lot about meditation but you are just not sure what it is all about. ...

The accumulation of material wealth and large bank accounts mean nothing at the moment of death. In actuality, the entirety of life is a preparation for dying. Living totally in the present moment allows you to create a fulfilled life and to face your impending death openly and with dignity. The realization that death can arrive ...

If the cause of suffering is unfulfilled desire, the solution to the problem must be to stop desiring. There are two ways of stopping desire: one either gets out of sight of the objects of desire (seclusion) or one tries to beat desire (asceticism). However, neither of these two approaches really work as the Buddha found out ...

When your mind drifts away, where does it go. Do your thoughts fill you with Love or do they fill you with fear. Do they uplift and support you or do they doubt and weigh you down. It is important to know this because what you think, you become. Your thoughts manifest what is around you and ...

When you are at work, you fantasize about being on vacation; on vacation, you worry about work. You dwell on memories of the past or worry about what may or may not happen in the future. You do not appreciate the living present because your monkey mind jumps from thought to thought like monkeys swinging from tree to tree. You ...

Compulsive thinking is tempting and easy. Presence and vulnerability is not. There really is this constant balance between thinking and Awareness. The mind is a tool you have for your entire life. You can not turn your mind off like you can your phone, but you can learn to turn your attention away from it. If you ...

Every single day is a miracle. Every single day there is something to be grateful for. Every single day small acts of kindness can completely restore someone’s faith in humanity and instantly change their circumstances for the better. Give thanks for not only how lucky you are to be alive, but your ability to be able to ...

The mind is divided into two aspects, the conscious and the subconscious mind. The conscious mind is made up of your surface thoughts, wishes, desires and aspirations. The subconscious mind is the realm of your automatic and habitual thought patterns and beliefs – the stuff you do when you do not even know you are doing ...

Change – and everything is change; nothing can be held on to – to the degree that you go with a stream, you see, you are are still, you are flowing with it. But to the degree you resist the stream, then you notice that the current is rushing past you and fighting you. So ...

The final step in integrating meditation into your Awareness is to use the stuff of daily life as part of your meditation. There are ways of perceiving the World and the way you live in it such that each experience brings you more deeply into the meditative space. At the same time, this kind of meditation requires ...

Fear is simply because you are not living with life, you are living in your mind. Your fear is always about what is going to happen next. That means your fear is always about that which does not exist. Your fear is never about what has happened. It is always about what may happen. It is ...

You can not add more time to the clock, but by understanding how this phenomenon works, you can at least try to make life seem like it is passing by a little slower. There are different theories about why our perception of time changes as we age. For one, we perceive time relatively, and that means an ...

The Earth is not a big rock, infested with living organisms, any more than your skeleton is bones infested with cells. The Earth is geological, yes, but this geological entity grows people. And our existence on the Earth is a symptom of the solar system and its balances as much as the solar system in turn ...