For many years I have awakened each morning with an unbidden sense of gratitude for life as a gift of this vast and mysterious universe. I have often wondered whether this gratitude is a learned moral posture—shaped by culture, ethics, and habit—or whether it arises instead as an expression of a deeper state of being, [...]

I have often wondered what J. Krishnamurti meant by “Flowering in Goodness.” The word goodness is so closely tied to what is culturally considered right or better—the proper way to be and act—that it quickly becomes linked to approval and disapproval, again based on cultural definitions of right and wrong. In conversation with a group [...]