There is a spiritual logic that is very precise, clean, accurate. It is actually the same of logic we try to use daily but the natural mind functions as a...
I took my sacred drums to the fair. In the huge room of booths and people searching for answers, massages, oils, a belt to support the back while reading or...
Making sense is the great thing that our minds do. Somehow we figure things out. We use logic: We eat bread. We are out of bread. Therefore, we need bread. The...
Prayer for Death I pray that this mystery come to us in softest beauty, the surrender of humility, and the gentle majesty of love, that we come to peace within...
In a universe of infinite love there is infinite reason for jealousy, should we choose that path. Always the lover is loving. Always love is present. Jealousy...
A few years ago there was a poster of an orangutan sitting quietly facing the camera, looking oddly tranquil. The caption was, "Sometimes I sits and thinks....
I am following a very disturbing story in the news about a young girl who was grabbed on the side walk, probably abused, and her body has now been found. Dylan...
Trying to give love and help is one of the greatest and most difficult challenges we face. And we all face it in one form or another. As friend, parent,...
How often have I seen clearly what others need to do? The fact of the matter is that those perceptions are almost always correct. We see the circumstances of...
Spirituality and withdrawal are two different things. There are times when the spiritual thing is to go within, something that could be said to be withdrawal....
The world stays the way it is. We change. Circumstances around us change, but the world stays the same way it is. Our perception is everything. Make no...
There is a way in which experience can be unscientific, misleading. Anecdotal evidence often represents a very convincing, yet limited view of a process that...
Blessings are piling up, more than I could ever have imagined, and different. Years ago I would have thought of blessings as a more tangible reward than are...
There is just no doubt that love is the most important thing. It makes everything endurable. Sometimes what we think is love, that passionate insanity that can...
I keep reading in various books and articles by variously inspired writers who have discovered new and great truths that they had searched far and wide for the...
We are often uncomfortable when things are going well. We may be unfamiliar with the process. So we sometimes try to make things more interesting, more...
Our loving and caring needs the intensity of deep personal meditation and commitment. There is much superficial energy that bounces off of us, has little ...
Gratification and spirituality are often confused with each other. We get what we want and feel like God is on our side. The sense of gratification is almost...
At the risk of having discovered the obvious, not for the first time in my life, I want to say what a joyful and meaningful thing it is to allow my life to be...
There is nothing more important than loving. That is the fundamental value. From it flows everything, every variation, every shape and nuance. If we were to...
I have talked with two people who spent time with the Maharishi, the great teacher of Transcendental Meditation, the smiling teacher of Deepak Chopra, the...
When we seek spiritual truth, it is simply not true that there are things we are better off not knowing. We are dealing with everything, with the infinite, so...
Ending a personal love relationship is one of the most painful and difficult things we do as human beings. We hope to find the divine manifested fully and...
So often we think we are short of time, but there's plenty of time. It's endless. It goes on and on and on forever. Think about it. Contemplate the flowing of...
Sleep is the playground of the soul, the dance of the unrevealed. It is then that the infinite swirls into consciousness speaking delicious and intriguing...
Look at me, into me. Show me your fear, your uncertainty. Let's not pretend anymore. We don't need the blissful sunshine of our brightest smile, the one we use...
It is a time of the deepest, saddest joy, the mixing of images and memories, culmination of a life, all that went before wrapping itself into a simpler and...
Life is so completely unpredictable. It boggles the mind, which apparently needs to be boggled. The paradox is how predictable so many things are. It's almost...
In this most beautiful of universes we are called upon to respond with love to things that leap beyond our capacity to love, that stretch us into new places to...
Marian is taking me deeper and deeper into her stillness. Her eyes meet mine and we become one. The silence deepens, thickens, slows and we come to the...
