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Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still. This one time upon the earth, let's not speak any language, let's stop for o...

Enough. These few words are enough. If not these words, this breath. If not this breath, this sitting here. This opening to the ...

Eric's mom is visiting from Miami for the first time since Umea was 1 month old. It's strange, isn't it, how different people t...

We are the one part of creation that knows what it’s like to live in exile. The ability to turn your face toward home is one of the grea...

That day ... I heard the voice of the world speak out, I knew ... life is no passing memory of what has been nor the re...

Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone... To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surrou...

And suddenly after months of floundering, it arrives - a corner around which something else will happen. A boundary between the way things ...

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting ...

The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other...

This clumsy living that moves lumbering as if in ropes through what is not done, reminds us of the awkward way the swan wa...

Delivered to McKinsey & Company, Phoenix, AZ November 10, 1990 One of your most fundamental tasks is the renewal of the organizations y...

I want to write about faith, about the way the moon rises over cold snow, night af...

The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with sure strokes al...

And in my angst, here is the quote that found me: "[W]hen you are following ... [a] plan in community you'll never be an expert, ju...

The Oracle at Delphi said: Know thyself. And even if you give yourself the wiggle room to say that this is an ongoing approach to life (a co...

Quiet tiptoes in the space confidence should fill. Disoriented, my ambition hesitates at unfamiliar crossroads indistinguishable from the de...

What does it mean to feel authentic these days? In a society where you have to have a license to drive, a degree to do pretty much anything,...

“ Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life ?” – Mary Oliver, “The Summer Day”  Pay attention (work hard),  res...

In yoga we learn that our thoughts and feelings line our joints like hard water deposits. I never give this much thought, partly because I...