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May 1990

From My Notebook

The day with its big arms around me, whispering in my ear.

Delicious Laughter

Rambunctious Teaching Stories Of Rumi

Giving Up

A state of grace, a change in attitude, sainthood

Tales Of Lord Shantih

“I can no more stop the wind than I can stop my unwanted thoughts,” he explained. “So I let them blow through me, and I carry on with my work.”

Sunbeams

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago . . . had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Havelock Ellis

Curlews

We are immortal until the hour death first seizes our imagination. This goes for species as well as individuals. To die you must once consider death and think of it as beautiful. All spiritual advances are advances in aesthetics.

The Way To Partnership

An Interview With Riane Eisler

In business, there’s an increasing emphasis on teamwork and a new vision of leadership — leadership that elicits creativity and productivity rather than controlling. And in the restructuring of the family, we’re beginning to see clearly the shift toward partnership.

Sunbeams

A child’s trust has the stubbornest roots: it takes far more digging than you would expect to pull out every little piece.

Deborah Moggach

January 1990

Letter By Letter

Words become sentences in spite of themselves, as moments become a life.

The Park This Week

“This must be the utmost high point in the history of Tompkins Square Park,” I told Jim Brodie, coming back from a poetry reading three weeks ago.