The world classroom...

In the Thursday mailbox...

We are being pulled and pushed by the Watercourse – as much a part of it as the flotsam and jetsam of life – constantly toward home. That pushing and pulling contains intimations of something larger and truer than our ordinary self-oriented ways of experiencing life.

“'In the world but not of the world,’ to be fully passionately involved in life and also be totally equanimous and centered ...is not an either/or, it’s a both/and.” – Ram Dass

Taking the teachings of the world's great Masters to be the ultimate rule is like ignoring a hundred thousand pure clear oceans and only focusing on a single bubble. – Ying-an in the Zen Reader by Thomas Cleary

It's hard to learn how to be lost after so much training. – Jim Harrison