Today’s THESE WORDS CHANGED ME come from Austrian poet Ranier Maria Rilke, whose name I always butcher when I say it out loud. “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. […]
Tonight’s THESE WORDS CHANGED ME come from the Buddhist maitri practice. Maitri means lovingkindness in Sanskrit. Here are the words: May I be filled with lovingkindness. May I be safe from inner and outer dangers. May I be well in body and mind. May I be peaceful and happy. May I be free. Some history: […]
The only book I took to Greenland in 1996 was Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams. One day, during a three-week hiatus in a tiny coastal village, I took off on foot to see the Icecap. I hiked up a broad, grassy valley past lichen-covered stone ruins until it dead-ended at a rock outcropping. I followed a […]
Tonight’s WORDS THAT CHANGED ME comes from a modern spiritual classic, “The Teachings of Don Juan” by Carlos Castaneda. Here it is: “Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t, it is of no use.” I’ve liked this quote since I first read it in the late […]
Tonight’s WORDS CHANGE US comes from “This Is Water” by the late David Foster Wallace. I think these words speak for themselves. What do you worship? “Here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as […]
