There is a time in our lives to stop, be still, rethink, look again at all that passes through us, around us. It's good to do that in general, to be examining...
A friend and I were watching the beautiful spring blooming of a pair of tulip trees in a nearby park. Against the barren panorama of the leafless trees that...
Wanting to do the right thing has a special charm that flows in a wide spectrum, far beyond what the phrase itself might seem to suggest. Wanting to do the...
In the rhythm of the drum, is our innermost pulse, the heartbeat of life, the sound that has been deep in our consciousness as living creatures, that began in...
There be dragons and tempests in the bowels of consciousness. Fear not, for thou wilt be destroyed only by fear of those things thou hast agreed to create. If...
Love is something I keep learning, keep discovering it seems for the first time. It's such a fresh and vital thing. I think that is because I keep slipping...
Perhaps we are angels who watched, loved, and guided, who wished to experience and so here we are. The mythical story has been told again and again of the...
Dear Friends, Just a quick note to let those of you in the St. Louis area know about what is coming up on Saturday, April 10th, this Saturday, four days from...
Being reasonable is a crucial quality, fundamental to anything good that can possibly happen. It has to do with proper use of the brain. It is the opposite of...
I am experiencing an incredible sense of the profound, the depth of the human experience. The atmosphere surrounding Marian is profoundly beautiful. Look at...
Emanations from the Still Point is about the inevitability of finding peace if we seek it. When we become still the divine emanates from within. It may not...
So many beautiful energies feed and fill us. It is a constant flood. Passion and excitement flow through the universe and it is for me to appreciate and enjoy....
It is a strange thing how what we are doing can seem so right and yet turns out to be wrong. Or something works in one situation but not in another that...
A great spiritual paradox is the difference between knowing and not knowing, certainty and uncertainty, clarity and mystery. When we become spiritually aware...
I am watching the paradigm of death moving in its beautiful flow into a new feeling of fulfillment. Words fail me because they have already been used to...
Today, for some reason demands a departure from the usual Emanations format. A poem by EE Cummings is asking to be sent. So here it is: O sweet spontaneous ...
Time marches on. I am amazed that it is already the twenty-first century, that I am not ten years old anymore, that my son is over forty, that I have two ...
In a strange and beautiful way, when speaking of the spiritual, to talk about God can be almost irrelevant, even distracting. The divine in our consciousness,...
Marian is going to where we have always been, where we always will be. It only looks like we are here. But when she leaves here, this space, this time, she...
Often I go charging into what I think is a beautiful thought only to discover that its veneer has a certain charm but it lacks depth and real viability. This...
I could easily and truthfully say that I have not earned the right to companionship with the divine. The karmic debt, the energies unfulfilled, the things not...
We are moving into a theory of moral relativity. I was delighted and blown away many years ago when I discovered the idea of situational ethics. It meant that...
Here's a common spiritual and mental mistake. We hear an idea that is rich with complexity. It is spoken in a context, a situation. Then we lift that idea out...
Are we having fun yet? That's pretty much the basic idea. I have heard spiritual purists who said that having fun is not the issue. It's about spiritual ...
We are in a world of lousy, stinking values. Government is run by power hungry people out for their own interests. People are being abused and killed all over...
I am in awe of the fact that life goes on. Last night was a heavy rainstorm. This morning the bark on the trees is wet outside my window and the leaves are a...
Scientific explanations have beautiful value in many, many ways. Science can often identify the mechanisms of what is happening, the how. But the why of how is...
Today Marian blossomed into the universe. Her consciousness was released from this limited moment into the infinite. She emerged fully conscious several days...
Not knowing is a basic understanding. Don't save your energy for later. The necessary energy will be there when it is needed. I am thinking of the climactic...
