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I Ask The Impossible (Ana Castillo) I ask the impossible: love me forever. Love me when all desire is gone. Love me with the single mindedness of a monk. When the world in its entirety, and all that you hold sacred advise you against...

By necessity every book must have at least one flaw; a misprint, a missing page, one imperfection. … the Rabbis … point out that even in the holiest of books, the scroll resting inside the Ark, the Name of Names is inscribed...

WoodMoor Village represents a simple attempt to give form to a post-humanist practice of mindfulness, and a gathering of the threads that help me develop what Jack Kornfield has called A Path With Heart, an ethical approach to life....

As I sit here and contemplate my ongoing O-Soji (mental and otherwise), I thought I’d repost an entry from three years ago, one that I find always speaks deeply to me. As I was engaged in my end of year clearing of the decks...