Intrinsic Heart

Soup and Salad When you mix ingredients in a bowl, it’s a salad. When you bake them, it’s a casserole. When you sauté them, it’s a fricassee. When you cook them with a little water, it’s a stew. When you...

Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time. If only I let it bear me, carry me, if only it carry me! If only I am sensitive,...

When John F. Kennedy visited NASA in 1962 he talked with many people there.  Each one told him about their jobs, with various details of the day-to-day.  But when he met a janitor in the hallway and asked him what...

This magnificent poem by Nâzim Hikmet, “Things I Didn’t Know I Loved,” is all the more amazing when you realize that he endured severe persecution and spent many years in prison due to his political beliefs. In 1949 an international...

You, nobly born, reading this.  You have brought yourself to the place where your inner life calls you to something more, something higher. Through effort and grace, this noble aspiration has been born in you. Those who are seeking something...

There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold...