Mother Teresa diagnosed the world’s ills in this way: we’ve “forgotten that we belong to each other.” Kinship is what happens to us when we refuse to let that happen. With kinship as the goal, other essential things fall into place; without it, no justice, no peace. I...

Since suffering as well as joy comes with being human, I urge you to remember this: Violence is what happens when we don’t know what else to do with our suffering. - Parker Palmer

Just for today: Be heliotropic. Which sun nourishes your life? Turn your face towards that. -- Hiro Boga Wheat-field next to our house, 7.30pm, 25/5/20

Reminder for unusual times "Laughter is carbonated holiness." - Anne Lamott

It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another...

The brain thinks and the heart knows. --J.Dispenza

Sometimes peace comes like the morning sun over the mountains and sometimes it comes in one simple, gentle breath, a fragile exhale working its way out of your tired body giving your weary heart a little more breathing room. --MHNichols Photo taken at dawn, Geneva...

"One of the gifts of eldership is that you've experienced the truth of impermanence over and over and over again so that it transforms from abstraction to lived reality. You're no longer waiting for, hoping for, working toward a state of permanence in any aspect of...