"Keep the channel open." - Martha Graham

Some reflections from a nighttime poem

Happy Lunar New Year! The lunar year is celebrated in Taiwan and many parts of Asia on the second new moon after the December (often...

In my family, I'm often teased for not remembering things that most people would consider important, while simultaneously recalling very...

I've been re-reading some of Pema Chödrön's book, When Things Fall Apart, and so much is still so relevant in today's chaotic and...

Whether by choice or by necessity, to experience the sweetness of doing nothing is a blessing enjoyed by far too few in this world.

It's easy to feel impatient, to fee like I am stagnant or moving backwards, when I recognize that the world doesn't change fast enough to...

Flying a kite is an exercise in life: a balance in command and release, to give into the direction of the wind, to maintain enough...

"The frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean" is one of the most famous proverbs from Chinese literature. The fable comes from "The...

From his journals published posthumously as "Keith Haring Journals," artist Keith Haring writes, "Life is very fragile and always...

Inspired by text from "The Analects"of the scholar who in his eagerness to pursue wisdom forgets his food, in his joy forgets his...

Sometimes the way we look at things doesn't change its inherent nature. We may be optimistic or pessimistic, but life is neither good nor...

From "Conduct of Life: A Philosophical Reading," this quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson is evocative, but I sometimes think it is only a...

I'm taking part again in Dani DiPirro's 30-day gratitude challenge. The prompt for this comic is ROUTINE. Sometimes routine gets a bad...

There's more than one way of looking at life and death. It's sometimes even comforting to think of them as one and the same.

Inspired by George Bernard Shaw⁠ ⁠ After I finished university, I turned down an opportunity to work in corporate finance for a large...

Collaboration with author, Amit Pagedar. Here are his perspectives: "In essence, there are no destinations. Yet our lives are geared...

"One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is the feeling that the present moment is not good enough." - Pema Chodron ✨⁠ ⁠ My son...

"I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being." - Hafiz Some quotes are so...

Original quote by Alan Watts Sometimes I think about all the things I've wanted to achieve and still want to achieve, and must remember...