Crowds cluster around the gates of Bhutan’s national stadium, begging to be let in. But the gates are locked. At just 7 am, the stadium is already full, and security guards worry that if they admit more people, someone will get injured. This is the first day of the...

“Come back to yourself. Return to the voice of your body. Trust that much.” ~Geneen Roth I may be showing my age, but here goes… It has come to my attention that I’m like a paddle ball. To anyone born in the 21st century: for context, before handheld devices ruled the...

‘Ordinarily, when we give, we are aware of ourselves as the giver, of the object as the gift, and of the person receiving it. These distinctions create a sense of separation between the three elements. But in true giving, these distinctions fall away.’ Everyday...

“True self-love is not about becoming someone better; it’s about softening into the truth of who you already are.” ~Yung Pueblo One morning, I sat at my kitchen table with my journal open, a cup of green tea steaming beside me, and a stack of self-help books spread...

Providing treatment to adolescents can be tricky. It’s hard for the teen, and it’s hard for the family that brought them there. To connect with and help a struggling teen, you have to be creative. One particularly bumpy day, I turned to the Nine Breaths of...

‘Our society is based on becoming. I was brought up to become something. We were always looking ahead into the future, always thinking there was something we must do. 'You're not good enough the way you are.’ Ajahn Sumedho

‘I offered you gold; it’s not my fault you preferred a pebble.’ (The leprechaun in the film The Luck of the Irish.). Everyday Buddhism

“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen… they must be felt with the heart.” ~Helen Keller I didn’t want to admit it—not to myself, not to anyone. But I am slowly going blind. That truth is difficult to write, harder still to live. I’m seventy years old....