Intrinsic Heart

A Spiritual Journey And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at...

Have you ever arrived somewhere and suddenly felt as though you’d come home?  Relieved of all that was weighing you down, you are at rest and fully at home with where you are. You are yourself and yet somehow beyond...

My eyes already touch the sunny hill. going far beyond the road I have begun, So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp; it has an inner light, even from a distance- and changes us, even if we do...

I used to have three names – my legal name and two pen names.  The editor of the magazine I worked for didn’t want readers to know that the same person was writing more than one article in each month’s...

Mondays are meshed with Tuesdays and the whole week with the whole year. Time cannot be cut with your exhausted scissors, and all the names of the day are washed out by the waters of night. No one can claim...

It’s the start of Tai Chi class, and we are all standing quietly, ready to begin.  The first instruction, before we do anything, before our inner attention goes toward feeling the energy of movement, before the arms lift and the...