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Sunbeams

As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.

Suzuki Roshi, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind

Sunbeams

The ancients said: “The hanged man cannot cut himself down.” But in due time Nature is stronger than all his ropes and bonds. It was always so. Where is the reason to be discouraged?

Chuang Tzu

Selected Poems

Facing The Struggle

Fear

Fear need not be enemy, a means of control and manipulation, but rather an integral part of being human to be experienced and even enjoyed.

A Certain Knowledge

Selected Poems

Selected Prose Poems

Home

My fear of my father, my piano, my unsuppressible nomadic tendencies

August 1979

Three . . . And Three

After she left, he sat up all night watching his body for signs of change, then watching his mind, trying to arrange his thoughts like jewelry.

Sunbeams

My life is my message.

Gandhi