Guidelines

The only thing we really have is today. And just as importantly, today has us. We are all passing through this fragile ecosystem on a mysterious journey, which no one can take for us. We don’t know for sure when and where we began, whether at the moment of conception, or even before that, heaven […]

Love goes beyond the grave. I have seen enough to be convinced that love does not end but awaits fulfillment in that mysterious realm beyond the pale of this pleasant place which faith calls heaven. When we die, we cannot take the things of this world with us. But I believe we can take love […]

If you want to have friends, you must first be a friend. Call it a “boomerang effect”: whatever signals you send out, will sooner or later come back to you. Here are twelve principles for being a friend, especially when another is in need of a friend: 1. Follow the Golden Rule. Be the friend […]

There is a little bit of vastness in each of us. It is a vastness we ought to visit on occasion, and sit silently with. This vastness does not announce itself, but simply shows up, as a hushed witness of something greater than ourselves dwelling with and in us. There are different kinds of vastness, […]

“One moment, one time.” That is the meaning of an expression a tea garden manager used during a tea certification in San Francisco back in January, 2006. She quoted a Buddhist saying, first in Chinese, then in English, which means, “one event, happening once only.” It refers to the fact that life events are unique, […]

One risk worth taking, is to believe in yourself. To believe in yourself does not mean to think you are always right; it does not entail a self-defensive stance of pride, which only gets in your way and masks you from the truth. To believe in yourself does not include feeling superior to others. Actually, […]