Contemplations
Short essays drawn from the books, for the days when your mind speaks so loudly that you cannot hear yourself.
The ego is not your personality but your identification with it. It shows up most plainly as the need to control, to be right, to win, and to survive. Its cleverest trick of all is to convince you that you do not...
ReadDarkness is not so much the opposite of light as its companion; neither one could exist without the other. The same holds for your bright and dark moments, your peace and your suffering. When darkness comes, it helps to remember that it...
ReadSuffering may not be the enemy it appears to be. Life seems arranged not to keep you comfortable but, in its own strange way, to wake you up, and pain often does what ease never could. Met with awareness rather than resistance,...
ReadTruth cannot be given to you by anyone, however wise or certain they sound. It can only be found, and found alone, in your own direct experience. Every teacher, every book, every confident voice is a traveler describing a summit you still...
ReadA gift to begin with
Thirty short pieces on peace and clarity, as a PDF, and a note from me when something new is published. No noise. Leave whenever you like.