I certainly spent many years in my early life chasing all over the globe for meaning and purpose. I'd feel like I'd found it, then it would fade away again. — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
When we fall utterly, something gathers us up. But our falling must be without reservation, without expectation, without hope, though not hopeless. You cant plan that kind of falling. When you abandon yourself utterly to life, the river will flow, and the log jam will free. Impossible is another word for grace. Who wouldve thought it, life takes another turn,… — Roger Housden Copy Share
When we turn our gaze to the inside, it becomes difficult to locate this familiar sense of self. To overcome that fear we need… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
People around us change and circumstances change. We can often find ourselves struggling against those things. — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
I bring my attention to my hands on the steering wheel and notice how the chatter in my mind begins to fall away as my breathing slows. I'm awake and alive, simply driving the car going where I need to go, on time and in time. A still point of the turning world. With that awareness, I bring my attention… — Roger Housden Copy Share
We live in an age of knowledge, with the great god Google, that we can refer to at any time on any subject. — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
When we're fully engaged in the present moment, no matter what we're doing, the question of meaning never seems to arise. It's because we… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
The natural wish and impetus to feel oneself to be an individual, to be special, includes standing out more than anyone else. — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
Struggle has a natural place in our life, but the fight or flight syndrome is often false struggle. There are times for that but… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
I live in California, where there's a lot of driving entailed. I'm usually going somewhere to be on time to meet someone so I'm… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
