Life situations challenge us spiritually, test our awareness. When is it time to let go and when is it time to bear down, focus, and get our work done? ...
There is a fundamental question within all of us as to who we really are. What do we want? What is inside us deeply, wanting to emerge, manifest in our lives?...
Things are whizzing by so fast I can't begin to comprehend. The mythology of our time is that there is so much information that we cannot possibly absorb it...
Love is what we are always seeking, no matter what we manifest. And we can manifest remarkably far away from love. There are two kinds of logic. The first and...
There are so many wonderful and exciting things in the world for us to be doing, finding out about, experiencing. It would be a shame to limit ourselves. One...
We are filled and flooded every moment whether we realize it or not. We are in the fountain. We are the fountain. The fountain metaphor breaks down, fails to...
Letting go is a funny little trick. I learned to let go about ten years ago and have been doing it fairly consistently ever since. One strange thing about it...
In the history of spiritual thinking a dominant idea has been the importance of eternal values versus the temporary, more fleeting sensual desires. In the...
There is a way in which the meditative state of mind becomes the normal state of mind. Life itself can be contemplative. Then we are not limited to a special...
There come times for changes in our lives. They can be very big, awesome, intimidating, overwhelming. If they are too imposing we may have a tendency to go...
We begin a new adventure today. Assume that we are conscious and creative. This is happening all the time. Not just a new day, each moment is a new adventure....
To be able to truly see is a great gift. When we fully visualize something, we see it from beginning to end. We know what it will look like when it is done....
Death is a word we use to refer to something we do not understand. So it isn't wrong to say that someone died. We just don't really understand. Dina died late...
Look at timelessness. It is a consciousness outside of time. It is the way we are spiritually, very foreign to the body oriented, survival oriented, time...
Systems of knowledge, philosophies, practices, teachings, disciplines, divinations, various statements of wisdom, none of these actually provide us with...
Sometimes I realize how little it would take from me to make a big difference in someone else's life and that I have not done something that would be helpful...
Things change, move on, shift their center. We understand or not, move or resist, accept, reject. The vicissitudes of life flow in their inexorable way and the...
We live our lives trying to accomplish, seeking happiness, things that satisfy our inner dreams, our ideas of success. We travel various paths, follow our...
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When we are under stress, problems appear in us, in our behavior, that can make us feel that we have failed spiritually. We may be irritable, irresponsible,...
It is the unspeakable that needs to be spoken, the unthinkable that needs to be thought. Our biggest barriers are our greatest doorways, our most powerful ...
The hardest thing is relationships with those closest to us. That is when we become most severe, most judgmental. It is where our standards go to absurd levels...
I am grateful for the infinite potential of every moment, every person, place, thing, particle, idea, love. There is no end to anything, for any ending is a...
Fulfillment comes from within. That is a spiritual axiom. We all know it to be true. So how does that work, exactly? We have an experience of the divine. We...
There is such energy and power in humility. It is hard to comprehend, it is so counterintuitive. It would seem that humility would be a reflection of weakness,...
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,...
There is a beautiful place within, a timeless place, a place where the sequence no longer matters, effect drifts into and around cause, elements become whole...
If I am wrestling with alligators, I am in the wrong building. I need to go over to that building across the way where they practice love and kindness. It...
Almost everything depends on how I use my time. Time can be thought of as precious, scarce, not enough. Or it can be seen as an endless ocean, ever flowing. ...
When we can't seem to get the mind to slow down enough to focus, when we try and it is like a whirl wind, throwing many issues, fogging the mind, how do we cut...