It is the things undealt with that give us the biggest problems, the things we'd rather just ignore and go on with our business, undisturbed. That's when the...
I make so many mistakes. But those are just things I do. They're not me. I can't be around anyone who wants to turn my mistakes into me. No, no, no. My credo...
Everything comes down to childlike simplicity It is or it isn't. In the adult world we like to declare gray areas, confusion, ambiguity, different viewpoints. ...
I am reading a wonderful book about dragons and evil wizards. As I read, it's all about morality, good, evil, the conflict between them, how right the good guy...
What is an ideal? A beautiful idea, perfect in every way, before reality grabs hold of it and beats the crap out it is all. An idealist is someone who has...
This strange spiritual reality I profess and live seems to be a foreign language to some people, or an esoteric, overly thoughtful thing to be shunned as ...
It's a lot easier to be spiritual when we have the time to process our reactions. It's along the line of thinking of what you wish you had said to that smart...
Ah! The lessons learned. Sometimes again and again, the same lesson, different day, different dance, same lesson. There is really only one lesson. It is that...
On a good day the world is so beautiful, so rich with interesting facets and aspects. Everything glows with extra pop and vitality. People smile and talk to me...
A good traveler has no fixed plans. That's in the Tao te Ching, one of the great repositories of wisdom in all of human history. Only eighty-one teachings by...
There's an argument for saving your best for last, holding back, timing the climax. And there is validity in everything to some extent or another. But there's...
I need to be open to criticism. If I'm not, how could I ever imagine that I had the right to criticize anyone or anything else. And the critical faculty is a...
What would make me happy? I am imagining the world of Amitabah, the Land of Peaceful Happiness. The brilliant light of Amitabah's wisdom cannot be measured, so...
Everything is a spiritual question. It's a matter of working with The Force. If the force is with you, if you are tuned into it the world changes, behaves ...
One of the beautiful things is to contemplate various spiritual traditions. I think about Amitabah, Green Tara, Ganesha. There's an interesting spiritual idea...
My old friend Death has returned, taking with him on his infinite journey one of my son's best friends, a buddy from high school. Bart was my granddaughter ...
We enter into sacred realms, praying, dreaming, hoping, or just being. All the instructions dissolve, become meaningless in the presence. Thoughts are not even...
Dear Subscribers, I write Emanations for myself and I send it to you. I don't do this for the money. However, your contributions are a reflection back to me of...
One of the differences between spiritual writers writers is whether or not spirituality is real for them or whether it is a hope. It is real for Lao Tzu and...
There is a coherence to life that begins within me as an individual. When my inner world is ordered the outer world begins to make sense. There is an elegant...
There is a coherence to life that begins within me as an individual. When my inner world is ordered the outer world begins to make sense. There is an elegant...
Always there are contradictions, truths that are absolutely valid that seem to contradict other truths. Mad magazine did a series of them many years ago. They...
There is a continual evolution of consciousness in process within me. Am I allowing it to happen? Or do I block it by holding onto my preconceived ideas? One...
Dear Friends, My web site is not up right now but you can access my PayPal account at the blog site, http://emanations.blog-city.com/ So for those of you who...
Just about everything has on the other hand sticking out of it. On the other hand, some things are absolutely knowable. On the other hand we really know...
Rosa Parks died yesterday. What a beautiful people changing soul she was. Funny thing is she says she didn't really mean to be a revolutionary. She says it was...
Dear Patient and Understanding Friends, I am so sorry for all the confusion. The web site was cancelled back in May of 2004 but they didn't get around to...
I watch Midnight, my cat, leap up onto my desk and go toward the window. He just leaped down from the window about a minute ago and now he's back. But now he...
There is a lightness and a clarity to some people. You can see that what they are doing is what they are doing. Nothing else is going on. The question they are...
