I  am becoming water: I let everything rinse its grief in me And reflect as much light as I can. - Mark Nepo The Buddhist call to breathe in the suffering of the world and breathe out light seems important right now. These are d...

It is said a great Zen teacher asked an initiate to sit by a stream until he heard all the water had to teach. After days of bending his mind around the scene, a small monkey happened by, and, in one seeming bound of joy, splashed about in the stream...

All tempest has, like a navel, a hole in its middle, through which a gull can fly, in silence. Fourteenth Century Japanese, Anonymous Living at the Edge of Center Living at the edge of center where certainty and absolutes and sure feet laugh. W...

No bird can fly without opening its wings, and no one can love without exposing their heart. It is perhaps the oldest of inner laws, as inescapable as gravity. Mark Nepo Read We Are Already Flying here....