Believe in Your Goodness
Robert Johnson, the noted Jungian analyst, acknowledges how difficult it is for many of us to believe in our goodness. We more easily take our...
Robert Johnson, the noted Jungian analyst, acknowledges how difficult it is for many of us to believe in our goodness. We more easily take our...
“Learning the Middle Path, the life of balance, allows the heart’s natural awareness and compassion to grow. We become free and gracious.” – Jack Kornfield...
We all face praise and blame, joy and sorrow, gain and loss. To have compassion for your human vulnerability is a blessed, tender practice. Poet...
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is not. Suffering arises from grasping. Release grasping and be free of suffering. Anyone who has had even the briefest introduction...
The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding. Right understanding has two parts. To start with, it asks a question...
People often struggle to understand karma. Karma is simply the law of cause and effect, and in our lives this law of cause and effect...
You are part of the web of life, so you don’t need to hold on so tightly. Ultimately, who you are is awareness itself. No...
We all need healing at different times in our lives. Sometimes we need healing for physical illness. At other times, we need to heal the...
In a healthy response to pain and fear, we establish awareness before it becomes anger. We can train ourselves to notice the gap between the...
After more than 40 years teaching mindfulness and compassion to thousands on the spiritual path, the most important message I can offer is this: You...
I imagine that one of the reasons that people cling to their hate and prejudice so stubbornly is because they sense that once hate is...
Marcel Proust once said, “The real voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Buddhist practice gives us...