Only one sin: cowardice.

There is more to life – and certainly more to destiny – than being a good parent.

The air clear, mild, bracing: just as we all should be.

The qualities we most despise in the world are precisely those we most need to quell or quash in ourselves, and the qualities we most admire in the world are precisely those we should strive to develop in ourselves. Is this obvious?

We do not see things as they are
We see things as we are.

It's amazing how squeamish modern people are about the G-word, especially here.

When I see someone meditating in full lotus it's clear that something quite different is going on. The posture, with strong lumbar spine and soles facing up, is like a springboard bouncing energy upward from the ground. And this, for me, is real meditation. Not going inside to find oneself but simply being an instrument for beaming energy up to heaven. Doing a simple job of work.

Next time someone brags about how smart their child is, remind them that far more important than a clever mind is a quiet mind.

Practice time is quiet time to yourself, away from the demands of family and work and the hubbub of daily life. It is time for you to come to that most precious yet elusive of states: peace of mind.

It's the impossibilities that keep me going…

the ordained darkness of the simple

Practice reticence.

Relax, not to become loose and flaccid, but to find, and cultivate, the natural tension that balances this relaxation. A subtle, involuntary tautness. A gathered centering. A withdrawing from things and into self. A solitude.

The Real is Not the Rational.

gather glow 
from the ground

Just enough.