My Heart

stretch your hand out. hold it like you’re looking for which elevator button to press, or you’re leaning on a door panel for a little support. put it up near my chest—gently, please—and then slide…

Mettā Heroes

ā€œThere are a hundred thousand species of love, separately invented, each more ingenious than the last, and every one of them keeps making things.ā€ — Richard Powers, The Overstory Love is a primal, unconditional, transcendent…

What does it mean to love all beings?

What, exactly, does it mean to ā€œlove all beingsā€? When someone says ā€œMay all beings be happy,ā€ what does that mean? Here’s my sense of it. Love for all beings is a feeling and a…

A Heavenly Realm

Things are changing so much, and so fast. We don’t have a choice whether things are going to change, but we do have the power to impact how they unfold.