The danger in being spontaneous is that we are so easily fooled in the moment. Honestly, I like the danger. It is a wake up. To know that I am in the moment,...
Einstein said: The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. In fact, we have to remain...
The first time I did a Native American sweat lodge I had expectations of going to the blissful center of a spiritual tradition that I had admired and revered....
There are things I may profess to value, yet do nothing about, a common malaise of my milieu, and every other milieu I ever heard of. We have habits of talking...
Life in its simplicity is such a beautiful and desirable goal, to sit quietly by myself or with a friend or loved one, talking, being, loving. Wonder is the...
It is so easy to think I am operating spiritually. Feeling good and being spiritual are not the same things. They may occupy the same space or not. But it is...
An incredible future is blooming before us. Go to the still point within for a preview of the upcoming show, a humanity filled with love and kindness. ...
Joy and love are ultimately everything. Hmmm......Can you actually prove that? Well, in a way, yes, you can. It's pretty simple. Of course, it had better be or...
I am evolved to love certain things. Love and survival are connected. We meet and mate based on a sense of survival. We love things we are in harmony with. We...
I have often wondered why the ultimate love poem would not be: I love you I love you I love You I love you I love you I love you I love You I love you I love...
All by myself I can have a sacred experience. I can close my eyes, let go, drift away into the stillness and feel the calm descend over me. But with others, in...
We never know what kind of an effect we may be having without intending it. We are little causality units bopping around the universe sending out vibrations,...
Opportunity can produce fear as well as joyful optimism. Negative energy approaches the unknown with fear and projections of problems, imagined opportunities...
I am looking out my same window for the five thousandth time, seeing it again for the first time. A fernlike tree has grown up into the view, close to the...
We seek the peace of perfect stillness, the place of repose, where all is done and we are quietly complete. So, if that's what we are seeking, why not just...
When things go out of whack we are not likely to know exactly what went wrong or how to get our whack back. It is the mystery. We have done our best, acted in...
There are beautiful teachings that I love, not because I follow them, but because they express what I believe and feel, how I act, how I want to be, what I...
For me, life is about projects, things that interest me, trails I pick up and follow, curiosity that attracts me, leads me. I love doing things. Making drums,...
Love is the beauty in our eyes as we smile softly, gently, kindly, a tender caring thing. There may be a hard edge to certain situations, certain kinds of ...
I'm in Nashville visiting the future, contemplating a new world, a new universe, a whole new way of seeing everything, emerging, nourished, growing. My...
I watch my grandson and my daughter. It is a gathering of family. We are all talking, reminiscing. It has come to this beautiful moment of togetherness,...
There is a sacred, special place within that comes back again and again. Or I could say that I return to it. It is beyond description or analysis. I think I...
St. John of the Cross and Rumi write of God as a lover. Their writings are passionate, sensual in their description of the divine bliss, the seeming oneness of...
I'd like to invite anyone within driving range of St. Louis to come to a drum meditation this coming Sunday afternoon (day after tomorrow) at the Living...
Judgmental attitudes can cripple us in many ways. We have things we don't own up to, things about us we don't want to expose to the judgment of others. Yet...
In my reality there are definite boundaries, limitations, restrictions that I need to acknowledge. All things are just not possible in the universe as I...
The simple fact of the matter is that we are constructed with a capacity for a state of spiritual ecstasy. It's like smiling, laughter, love. Those are just...
Attitude determines almost everything, even what the facts are. Genuine objectivity is only a theoretical idea. We all have a viewpoint that influences what we...
One of the difficulties in writing spiritual messages is in staying real, sticking to the things that are going on, rather than just lifting off into some sort...
Fresh joy, fresh love, has an aura like nothing else. It flows with unmistakable ease, through eyes, into heart. It is the spontaneous moment sparkling with...
