Here's the graduation speech I think I'd give: Now that you are graduating don't think you are about to enter the real world. You are leaving the real world...
A dear friend suggested that one of the films I should see was, Down the Rabbit Hole, by the makers of, What the Bleep? I often have difficulty with the...
Hello, Dear Friends, I am vegetating, literally. My tomatoes are beginning to ripen. The sunflower labyrinth is blooming with hundreds of sunflowers. I have...
I think it is time to resume writing Emanations Thoughts. I think I have come to what may have been missing for me. I always tried to keep the writings as ...
In this time there are so many beautiful things, valuable things, interspersed among the amazing insensitive, horrible things. I just received an email from a...
There is a voice that needs to be heard, the voice deep within that feels the oneness of meaning in all things, that connects truths to each other. So often we...
The dream is alive. What dream? It doesn't matter. We are alive when we have hope. The paradox is that hope means something is missing, something we want, not...
Teachings don't just use metaphors. They are, themselves, metaphors. What is a metaphor exactly? It is an expression that does not mean literally what it says....
I had a conversation with my friend Lloyd. We hadn't talked in a while. There is a dearness, honesty, and intimacy in our friendship that has a special sacred...
There is a beauty to life that returns and returns. The secret is my intention to return, to keep coming back, to believe that if I just keep traveling the...
The most therapeutic thing is to be able to talk freely and discover what's going on inside ourselves. Advice generally won't really be that helpful, unless it...
In many ways language is so inadequate. It's at its best when it points at things and names them. But when it is dealing with the inner workings of the union...
In the great wisdom of life as it flows in its inexorable abundance is the truth that letting go, allowing, observing, appreciating are values that surround, ...
As we come into greater and greater awareness, our modern era embraces the timeless stories and we begin to see and experience them anew. There is a new...
I was watching Highlander, about the guy who could not be killed except if you managed to cut off his head. He could take a sword in his belly or through his...
I am reading the Sutra on the Vow of Bodhisattva Kishitigarbha. His vow is to not enter into Buddhahood until all the souls of the Universes have been relieved...
There is a hopelessness that can overtake us, a realization that all we have ever done was part of a huge, meaningless pattern now seen to be delusional,...
Let me count the ways. It is a strange little piece of poetry, for it doesn't really mean to count, like an accountant. It means to gaze into the infinite, to...
Solving life problems is not about intelligence, education, special skills, or anything really beyond the reach of the ordinary average person. Our challenges...
Assertiveness is a wonderful thing, often given a bad name by aggressiveness. In fact, even when we are being simply assertive many people will call it ...
Contentment goes two ways. It can make me feel complete, satisfied, like not really doing anything but contemplating. It can produce the energetic flow of...
"It is sufficient. You of the Earth are redeemed." This was the ending of a short story I read back in the sixties. The story was that we had been visited by...
Sometimes beauty is expressed in such a way that it sparks something deep inside, reminding us of a depth that we recognize. It is the mystical alive within us...
Heaven lies in not being judged. Ah, what a freedom it is to be who we are and not be accountable for it, to speak our minds and be understood, not questioned....
I want you to feel the joy and laughter of the universe. I don't understand it, but it's there, beautiful and fun. I sit on my steps at midnight staring down...
Well it's my birthday. Normally I let the big days kind of float by, Christmas, New Year's Day. They're just days. I wrote a thought many years ago about how...
Do you realize what is happening in our modern era? The miraculous is becoming the ordinary. We are actually leaving the era when we could say, Yeah,...
We are watching a world in evolution. Not only did we evolve, we are still evolving. But the life process cannot be reduced to a simple word, limited and ...
I remember well the pain. It comes by every now and then hoping to seduce me. Often I have forgotten all about it having been a part of me, my arms and legs, ...
Neediness provokes action. So here is the action. I am asking the universe for a car. My sweet old 1990 Dodge Caravan which I had declared I would get 300, 000...
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