Sitting across the aisle on the B train I look at the row of weary faces various shapes, sizes, colors, ages, a horizontal explication of...

Because the eye has a short shadow or it is hard to see over heads in the crowd? If everyone else seems smarter but you need your own...

Here is a relationship booster that is guaranteed to work: Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid make your eyes light up...

It is said that before entering the sea a river trembles with fear. She looks back at the path she has traveled, from the peaks of the...

Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean — the one who has flung...

When God said, "My hands are yours," I saw that I could heal any creature in this world; I saw that the divine beauty in each heart is...

Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow— even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arriving to be a bud on a Spring...

You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet: it lives in the other...

Though we find clear waters ranging to the vast blue sky of autumn, how can that compare with the hazy moon on a spring night? Some...

Out Of a great need We are all holding hands And climbing. Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too...

The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though...

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s...

Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful...

May the beauty of your life become more visible to you, that you may glimpse your wild divinity. May the wonders of the earth call you...

If you can start the day without caffeine, If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains, If you can resist complaining and...

I said to the wanting-creature inside me: What is this river you want to cross? There are no travelers on the river-road, and no road. Do...

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our...

Whoever acts with respect will get respect. Whoever brings sweetness will be served almond cake. Good women are drawn to be with good...

How did the rose ever open its heart and give this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of light against its being,...

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical...