Like the River Runs….
If I run like the river runs If I fall like water falls Oh if I breathe like the wind Will I ever learn it all? If I change like autumn...
On Imperfection
“Imperfection also makes growth possible. Like it or not, the main way we learn is by falling flat on our face, just as we did when we...
On Being Special
The following is from a very 'special' woman that I had the fortune to interview on my podcast some time ago. She has written a very...
The End of Suffering
May the sound of this bell penetrate deep into the cosmos Even in the darkest spots living beings are able to hear it clearly So that all...
Grati-dude for Fathers
This Father’s Day, let’s not only honor all the fathers and father-like figures in our lives but also extend to them a lot of gratitude....
Sincerity
Confucius said, "Sincerity is the way of heaven; arriving at sincerity is the way of man. The sincere person does the right thing without...
A Field of Action
This whole world is a field of action; You plow it To raise a rich crop But the wild deer Of attachment Ruins the harvest and most return...
The Transcendent Moment
While the edifice, your mind and your body, desires--it desires food, it desires sex, it desires security, it desires gratification of the...
On a Day When the Wind is Perfect
On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day. My eyes are like the...
Gift From The Sea
When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is...
A Musing….
Funny isn’t it…. How we’ve chosen To be... Led, shown, guided, taught, illumined, inspired…. While others choose to be…. Shoved, tricked,...
Listening; Healing
I had blocked my listening and visionary skills for so long. What is the point of listening to the stories that are locked in the bones?...
Forgotten Family
As I descend into basement shadows, I am washed in red. Smoothness is not a choice on the earthly plane. As light reveals, so also shadows...
Void
Thirty spokes will converge In the HUB of a wheel But the use of the cart Will depend on the part Of the hub that is void With a wall...
Being Easy….
Easy is right. Begin right, and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way and...
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, ...