If I know myself

The core virtue is humility. If I know myself, I am humble. If I don’t, I am ignorant; I will hold false ideas about myself. At the extremes, I will either be under-inflated and suicidal or over-inflated and megalomaniacal. Humility, self-knowing, is wisdom. Wisdom is our depth dimension. If I do not know myself, I am disabled. I cannot love. If I know the world without knowing myself, I am a technician. Life, then, is a calculation. This is where we are today. Our knowledge of the world has vastly outstripped our knowledge of ourselves. No man who knows himself could ever build a bomb. Or pretend to lead a country.    

Falling into love

The word “intimacy” comes from the Latin for “depth.” Love is not about going ‘out there’ and finding someone. It’s about falling ‘down there’ and finding ourselves.

Stopping by Woods

We enter the woods because nothing in the natural world has a strategy.

Dhamma

We’ve got to go deeper than what happens, aka the news of the day. What’s underneath all that? What’s going on a fathom or two below the froth and roar of the surf?

Vertical freedom

The first freedom is freedom from negativity.