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March 2017

March 20, 2017

The Secret is Burning

but I can’t tell if it’s using us up or lighting the way. Back from...

March 13, 2017

She’s Been Gone a Month

I’m teaching in Santa Barbara. The sun is setting. The group is having dinner. Someone...

March 08, 2017

At the Window

I was at the window when a fly near the latch was on its back...

February 2017

February 27, 2017

Things No One Asks About

I have been called heroic for merely surviving, which is like championing an eagle for...

February 20, 2017

Our Spirit Path

After four months of aggressive chemo, I had to have a test known as First...

February 13, 2017

Issues of Control

Chapter 24 of the Tao te Ching by the legendary Lao Tzu offers helpful direction...

February 06, 2017

Earth Prayer

O Endless Creator, Force of Life, Seat of the Unconscious, Dharma, Atman, Ra, Qalb, Dear...

January 2017

January 30, 2017

God’s Wounds

Beyond all that pain has taught me, the soft well at the base of time...

January 23, 2017

Burning the Map

Expectation is premeditated disappointment. —Sogyal Rinpoche Everyone’s life journey eventually arrives at a precipice or...

January 16, 2017

The Two Tribes

As we approach Inauguration day, I want to offer a deeper, broader context for the...

January 09, 2017

On the Way to Coney Island

I was eight or nine, rummaging through her basement, through my dead grandfather’s books, when...

January 02, 2017

Finding Solid Ground

John’s father had built their home when John was a boy. It was perched on...

December 2016

December 29, 2016

Look Around

If you try to comprehend air before breathing it, you will die. If you...

December 19, 2016

The Great Wave

Sometimes we seek refuge from our pain in the habits of life, as if sheer...

December 12, 2016

Walking North

No matter how I turn the magnificent light follows. Background to my sadness. No...

December 05, 2016

At Stadium and Drake

I was waiting to make a left, to get out of traffic. She was across...

November 2016

November 28, 2016

Accepting This

Yes, it is true. I confess, I have thought great thoughts, and sung great songs—all...

November 21, 2016

If You Want a True Friend

Just open your hands and say, “I don’t know.” Say it softly and wait, so...

November 12, 2016

Post-Election Thoughts

I was recently in New York City giving a reading at the New York Open...

November 07, 2016

Breaking Surface

Let no one keep you from your journey, no rabbi or priest, no mother who...

October 2016

October 31, 2016

Fighting the Instrument

Often the instruments of change are not kind or just and the hardest openness of...

October 24, 2016

In Muir Woods

Masters of stillness, masters of light, who, when cut by something falling, go nowhere...

October 18, 2016

The Lesson

When young, it was the first fall from love. It broke me open the way...

October 10, 2016

Where No One Stays a Statue

It was a sunny day and I went to the park and sat on a...

October 03, 2016

Initiating the Gift

I often experience the days like someone rowing, and each time I slip an oar...

September 2016

September 26, 2016

The Covenant of Love

In the West, we’re eager, even anxious, to choose names for babies before they’re born....

September 19, 2016

Our Authority of Being

Alex is a trial attorney who knows how to be assertive and use the authority...

September 12, 2016

The Effort to Learn

I confess and celebrate that the only thing I’ve done longer than teach is to...

September 06, 2016

Going Off the Deep End

When our beloved dog Mira died, there were those who walked with us, honoring the...

September 02, 2016

Did You Miss the Live Stream with Mark Nepo on “The One Life We’re Given?” Here’s the Video!

Patheos Spirituality is honored to welcome Mark Nepo to a live stream event happening here...

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