At the Tip of Time’s Arrow

Everybody alive today exists at the tip of Time’s arrow, at the pinnacle of Being, the highest summit of evolution. This Present, in which we exist at each and every moment of our lives, happens to be the most advanced point of the most advanced … continue reading

The Eternal Ragpicker

You think you create your life, but when you look closely you realize that you actually collect it from the countless stories and myths, ideas and circumstances, the ordinary and extraordinary human lives that envelop your being. You are a ragpicker of many lives! Your … continue reading

Day and Night

Once in awhile, it is good to meditate on this idea while observing the starlit night sky, to feel how rare in the universe is a living planet with light and sounds, and living entities with eyes and ears and hands and minds. The vast … continue reading

Just For Me

Sometimes the “coincidences” were so extraordinary that I felt as if the whole universe were preoccupied with my journey; planning everything so that my travels would become even more special than they already were. While I was traveling around the world, one of the things … continue reading

The Honey of the Shoeshiner

“Rilke wrote: ‘Things should be comprehended by us in a most fervent understanding and transformed. Transformed? Yes, for our task is to impress this provisional, perishable earth so deeply on ourselves – so deeply, so painfully, so passionately – that its very essence may rise … continue reading