Marie

There is an old saying we hear from childhood. Give a rose to another, and its fragrance lingers on your own hand. As a child I didn't understand it, and took it only as words urging us to be kind....

Lately I keep thinking about the word language. Social media has grown so vast that many truths, many things the great figures once said, ordinary people can now say too. Sometimes anyone around you can offer up a whole string...

This past April, I visited Gordon Gu's museum. As I stepped through the entrance, I saw two words on the wall. To perceive. At the time, I felt nothing in particular. To perceive was just a word to me, a...

These past two years, I've been searching, trying to understand myself, and what it really is that we live for. A few days ago, I think I found the answer. That day, my friend, Dapeng, and I took the children...

Something suddenly became clear to me. Why the people who are willing to give first so often live a whole life of abundance. It's because they are in accord with the Tao, in accord with the way this universe moves....

I love taking my child, and his good friends, out to play. Watching those children run around, innocent and free, with those bright, radiant smiles on their faces, my heart just fills with happiness. Later I realized it isn't only...

These past few days, I've been using some AI tools to help with my work. And it left me with a deep impression. I found that as long as something can be spelled out in clear rules, as long as...

The notes I write here are really the experiences I've had along the way as I've grown, and the quiet growth of my own heart. What surprised me was that, slowly, I came to see that behind Gordon Gu's work...

I've always felt that everyone needs pure love, and pure friendship. Not the kind of closeness that comes only because you're useful, because you have something to give. But the pure kind, where someone likes you, and is good to...