This is what the things can teach us:
To fall patiently, to trust our heaviness
Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.
—Rainer Maria Rilke

After the Fire

When joined with wisdom and equanimity, metta has the power to dispel fear and restore health.

Most often the good that people do doesn’t hit the news but some does. Consider the goodness we can see as being like the tip of an iceberg.

Desire is like energy. In its basic form, it’s neither good nor bad. Desire only become a problem when it is clung to.

The truth about suffering and why it happens.

True refuge in one sense the knowing that there is no safety to be found in the changing conditions of life.

Nature is no longer something we are passing through on the way to getting somewhere else; rather, nature is passing through us.

It could be said that Grail stories were lay persons’ ways of charting and describing a necessary and good spiritual path. — Richard Rohr

A lost dog leads to insights about karma and kindness..