The problem is not the problem. The set of difficulties is not the issue. The issue is my spiritual awareness. Without direct experience of a higher...
Our presence speaks more than our words ever can. We can say what we want, but it is who we are that communicates. I was with a friend who is having trouble...
I have been working on making a drum with a shaman friend. She wants to make a sacred drum that will be a part of her work in entering the spiritual realm,...
The importance of sacred space is revealed more and more deeply. I heard a story about a lawyer friend who was involved in a difficult cross examination of an...
As we grow spiritually our concept of God may go through various evolutions. I try to remember that the divine is infinite in its manifestations. That means...
Success is a beautiful spiritual experience. To accomplish something is a very high calling indeed. Don't think that achieving a goal is a spiritual...
One of the interesting spiritual debates is the question of distinction between good and bad, right and wrong. One of the problems in defining things is that...
The Tao that can be named is not the true Tao. So when I try to figure things out, look at the complexity and search for the answer, I am trying to come to the...
When I am having spiritual difficulties there are sometimes two questions I need to ask. The first is what am I doing? The second is what are people around me...
A friend was talking about difficulties in meditation, being flooded with images when the object was emptiness, not being able to think of nothing. Meditation...
Spiritually is not about making things dull. In the play Don Juan in Hell, George Bernard Shaw, has an encounter between Don Juan and the general, whom Juan...
Even when we don't know who we're talking to and know we will never speak to them again we need to be loving, kind, clear, patient. We create a world that...
The images within need permission and approval, acceptance before they can emerge freely, reveal themselves, the inner me, my unrealized desires, imaginings,...
The complexity of life offers us as much complication as we want to indulge. That jungle is filled with opportunity to categorize, sub categorize, divide,...
I have heard dire warnings of spiritual consequences for the uninitiated who enter unprepared into the spiritual realm, that there are spirits who are...
The spiritual revolution is that it is so simple, so easy. There is literally nothing to it. We go to the emptiness, do nothing. The complications all come...
There is another universe. It's right inside your head. Close your eyes and feel the black space inside you. Feel the distance behind you. Look backwards into...
Any thought draws energy, other thoughts. Thoughts connect to thoughts in a network of ideas, each touching, impinging, affecting other thoughts. Ideas in...
Don't think that physical comforts don't matter. I just got a pair of slippers as a gift. My feet feel really warm for the first time in years. I had been...
How does the world really work? What if it's like a movie, an illusion in which things are made to appear to be happening a certain way? There is no car crash....
We all make mistakes. When we have made a mistake we say we were wrong. I was wrong does not mean I AM wrong in the very essence of my being. It means I made a...
According to Native American tradition this is not a new day. The day has returned. Perhaps we could say there isn't a new moment either, that it is always...
The sacred place within has become very important to me, the center of my life, in fact. I used to perceive spiritual people as trying to obey a dogma for an ...
I don't want to say that death makes life meaningful. Life has an intrinsic energy that is beautiful, powerful, amazing. But death has something crucial to say...
Spirituality and determination are often thought of as not belonging in the same moment, the same consciousness. But spiritual clarity can be very simple in...
Our world is hurting and we hurt with it. The pain is excruciating in the collective. It is for us to find the love, the beauty and the joy without hiding from...
Any form of reward for bad behavior encourages it. So if we give children what they ask for when they are rude or if we reward them when they scream we are...
I open to the infinite. I pray for wisdom, divine awareness. Nothing happens. What's wrong? The problem is expectations, what we want to have happen. What is...
For those of you in the St. Louis area I would like to let you know that I will have a booth at the Healthy Planet Natural Living Expo Sunday February 1st. It...
The peace and refuge from the insanity of the world around us is that we need to do good works ourselves. The world appears the way we make it. What we do...
