How to be a Poet
1. Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill-more of each than you...
To See as God Sees
It is your destiny to see as God sees, to know as God knows, to feel as God feels. How is this possible? How? Because Divine love cannot...
What have we lost???
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in...
I Got Kin
Plant So that your own heart Will grow. Love So God will think, ''Ahhhhh, I got kin in that body! I should start inviting that soul over...
Are You Looking for Me?
Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours. You will not find me in the stupas, not in Indian shrine...
Your Brand New Name
In some spiritual traditions, devotees attempt an arduous process of self-transformation as they retrain themselves to perceive the world...
Think on these things….
"What you are is much more important than what you should be." "The problem of the individual is also the world's problem, they are not...
Speaking to Angels
"My youngest daughter used to have conversations with angels every night. One night when she was just two and a half, she asked me to tell...
Flashmob Ode to Joy
The power, the grandeur, the spontaneity, the longevity of these vibrations that bring us together, that remind us of our connection, ...
Questions – Round 1
Our weekly offering 'Living the Question' has for over a decade now collected verse, poetry, prose, lyrics, video and audio from varied...
On Vocation…..
"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy" Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand...
What I learned from Henry Miller and then forgot:
What I learned from Henry Miller and then forgot; Dive in and swim, not moon around trying to decide what project to start on first. it's...
Look to this day
Look to this day, for it is life, the very breath of life. In its brief course lie all the realities of your existence; the bliss of...
Lost
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful...
Understanding
"Happiness never comes through answers. it comes only when we're so tired of answers, that we just decide to live questions fully" Gene...
15 thoughts
1) The past has no power over the present moment. 2) Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‘yours,’ not personal. They are conditions...
Fighting Chance
What do I get for this? I said & the angel gave me a catalog filled with toasters & clock radios & a basketball signed by...
Neck Deep in Grace
...A friend James Baraz tells of traveling to India to be with the guru H. W. L. Poonja... Poonja was celebrated for his freedom of...
Seuss-ian thought
"I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all...
A Quechua Prayer
"Great Creator, Grant me the light of wisdom. Mother Earth, bountiful source, Help me draw strength from the ground beneath my feet....
Connection
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe... The universe would be incomplete...
Your Laughter…
Take breath away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter. My struggle is harsh and I come back with...
This month your life is being brought to you by…..
Does the Ego Ever Disappear?
Question: Does the ego ever come into alignment with the evolutionary impulse? And if so, what happens to it? Does it go away or...