firefly hall

Looking around at any group of people, or even being with one person, it's amazing to realize that every single one of us will die. How...

Yunmen said, "Every day is a fine day." My old Zen teacher used to say that it was incorrect to ever evaluate a day as good or ba...

Phillip Hallie on Albert Camus: "Two French words summarize the mood (for it is a mood and not a philosophic system) that Camus expres...

The Temple is very quiet today, and clean and empty. Leonard Cohen's words echo in my mind: we are waiting for the miracle to come. In...

Some new research on healthy marriages suggests that spouses who express their gratitude to each other have a better chance of staying marri...

An old friend just reminded me of something I said to her many years ago and I was happy to be reminded. It's an image I use when I...

Lately I've been notice just how darn happy I am. I don't mean that I'm blissed out all the time, or even cheerful. There'...