“Why should you want to exclude any anxiety, any grief, any melancholy from your life, since you do not know what it is that these conditions are accomplishing in you?” —Rainer Maria Rilke The memory of waking up on summer mornings as a kid hasread more

In his book Being Peace, Buddhist monk Thich Nhat-Hanh describes the right way of perceiving in the classical mediation manual for Buddhists: “The practitioner will have to contemplate body in the body, feelings in the feelings, mind in the mind, objects of mind in objects of mind.”read more

Many religions describe their spiritual leaders as having been awakened by a divine calling—a vocation in the most literal etymological terms. God/A Higher Being struck a match in the dark of night, whispered in an ear deafened by the hum of expectation, touched a lost soul’sread more