“Why does the universe go through all the bother of existing?” – Stephen Hawking Am I living a life or am I a life being lived? Am I or am I not? And if…

“There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now.” – The Buddha Have you noticed that ‘you’ really never age? That there is a timeless quality to you?…

“I am the miracle.” – Buddha Do you wander through the typical day hurting or happy? Were you raised in a supportive, loving, stable family environment? Or was your parenting malignant, indifferent, nonexistent? Was…

“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald It’s easy to blame the loneliness of the spiritual path on the reluctance (or refusal)…

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.” – Confucius When author David Foster Wallace…

Some of my earliest memories are of my brother and I clambering high up into trees – clinging to the uppermost branches and letting the wind and our weight carry us to and fro, the…