Intrinsic Heart

"It is not necessary for you to complete the work; neither are you free to desist from it." - Rabbi Tarfon Each time we choose to think deeply on the nature of reality, each time we choose kindness and peace,...

they set my aunt’s house on fire i cried the way women on tv do folding at the middle like a five pound note. i called the boy who used to love me tried to ‘okay’ my voice i said hello...

Whenever we care passionately about something, it’s always personal. That intensity of feeling has a deeply personal quality. It has a rawness, an authenticity, a fierceness of something demanding to be heard. The raw “I am here.” Feeling fully and...

Roses Underfoot If anyone asks you to say who you are, say without hesitation, soul within soul within soul. There's a pearl diver who does not know how to swim!  No matter. Pearls are handed him on the beach. We...

In every moment there is something to look at, something to feel, something to taste—a flavor in the atmosphere, a sensation in the body, the feeling of the air around you, the vague stirrings of awareness of your deepest self....

Love, I didn't expect you so late: the lamps were extinguished by my tears. Only an ember shone in the ashes, heart waiting for death. But the fire revives at your arrival and things are dressed in marvelous light. A...