“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~Rumi I watched my son get hit by his father, and something inside me finally broke open. Not broke apart. Broke open. There’s a difference. For years, I had absorbed the chaos. I had made myself smaller, quieter,...

‘Everyone has a natural koan. What's worrying you now? A seemingly intractable problem. Illness, old age, death?’ Everyday Buddhism

What does it look like to slowly rebuild your life, one small perspective shift at a time? If you ask Brianna Bascom today, her life feels like a beautiful dream realized. She is a successful business partner, a passionate artist, and a mother who starts every single...

My most intimate knowledge of war comes through my father. During the final days of his life, he began reliving his wartime experiences, memories he had never shared with his family. For decades he had carried them silently, the wounds buried deep within him. In his...

‘The enlightenment in which you see your true mind and realise your true nature is transmitted outside of the scriptures; it is not based on names and words.’ Bassui Tokushō

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” ~Marcus Aurelius Gratitude. It used to be a very triggering concept for me, and sometimes it still is. It’s been a process to unravel what it...

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.” ~Viktor Frankl For a while, I forgot about that space. When conflict entered my life—first with my employer, then with my insurance company—I didn’t react explosively....