Love – the supreme authority

This blog is an excerpt from Pierre’s book Apprendre à s’aimer Available only in French, our translation “To love is to desire the true good for others and for oneself”. There is a reality in the universe that constitutes the ultimate Reality, a law that nullifies all...

Mending the World

CAC teacher Mirabai Starr writes of Judaism’s affirmation of tikkun olam—human participation in the world’s restoration: There is a kabbalistic story in which the boundless, formless, unified Holy One wished to know its Holy Self, and so it contracted and poured...

The Power of Right Thinking

Today I  am going to share with you a story which shows the power of right thinking, e.g., blessing. When he was in his early twenties, my friend Mark decided to undertake a trip around the planet. At one moment, he ended up in a Buddhist monastery in Thailand. Each...

Our world is shaped by how we see it

This blog is taken from one of the chapters in my most recent book, Et ainsi coule la rivière (Thus flows the river, only available in French).  The notion that we live in a welcoming and caring universe is very close to my heart, and at the end of the text...

Mindfulness of Love

Buddhist practitioners Peggy Rowe Ward and Larry Ward invite us to engage the breaches of the world with the “mindfulness of love”: The mindfulness tradition calls us home to our true hearts and minds, to the realization of our true identity and our connectedness to...