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Today is Reek Sunday, the traditional day for a pilgrimage to Ireland’s Holy Mountain Croagh Patrick

There is something deeply human about climbing a holy mountain. But we do not need to go anywhere speci...

This message is consistent across all wisdom traditions.

“Sit in your cell and it will teach you everything,” they said. The point was that unless a man could find God here, in this one place, his cell, he would not find...

You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell.

You must be able to extract nutriment out of a sandheap.

You must have so good an appetite as this, or else you wil...

We do not turn away from difficulties or or injustice, but neither do we surrender to despair. If we can have a heart wide enough to hold both, the ordinary becomes sacred.

Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in...

What we need to know is already known within.

Sometimes life circumstances require [that] a therapist…embodies the permission-granting authority figure, the simulacrum of an empowering parent, but even ...