Intrinsic Heart

A clear drink of water.  A cloudless sky.  A moment’s silence.  An unexpected breeze. Waking up in a small motel in Fiji, somehow light and filled with joy.  Nothing to do, nothing not to do.  A feeling of no problems,...

Live in the Uncertainty Live in the uncertainty Live in the Unknown How does the rose know itself until it is full blown? - Shanti Natania Grace ~~~~~~~~~~~ When All Doors Are Open When all doors are open When everything...

This is a different sort of story than you’ll usually find on this website, a story from a another life many years ago.  In those days I was a freelance writer, writing under three different names (more about that in...

When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such hints of gladness. I would almost say that they save me, and daily. I am...

Love has taken away my practices and filled me with poetry. I tried to keep quietly repeating No strength but yours, but I couldn't. I had to clap and sing. I used to be respectable and chaste and stable, but...

When you think about the teachers who gave you something valuable, some were kind and some were fierce.  There were those who took something away and those who opened a door to something new, those who showed you your strength...