Seeing how things go together sustains me. The moment of such grasping is like a synapse that is fired and life-force is released…In such...

I came across the following poem by Barbara Kingsolver while re-arranging my writing studio, in the midst of a rare week alone. The words...

“A paradox is not a conflict within reality. It is a conflict between reality and your feelings of what reality should be like.” —...

“You are definitely ready… to [plumb] the depths of your adoration for the privilege of being alive.” — Rob Brezny Earthquakes, tsunamis,...

“We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a...

The following poem “Could Have” is by Wislawa Szymborska, the Nobel prize-winning poet from Poland. Underneath its umbrella of wild...

“We humans have a clear preference to create and tell stories, and narrative integration is the weaving of facts and felt experiences of...

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thought nor measure words, but pouring...

“If you think that the truth can be known from words, if you think that the sun and the ocean can pass through that tiny opening called...

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. — Epictetus, Greek philosopher, 55-135 A.D. Woods Hole...