What Psychedelics Told Me About The Coronavirus
"No matter how complex a question I may have, when I take it to psychedelics I always receive an answer. So when the Coronavirus pandemic...
Letting it Go
"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning."...
Grist
You say every life situation is a perfect lesson, how is that so? "The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out...
A look at this Body…..
"My Zen teaching has deepened to encourage people to really plunge into the world, into life. I want them to enter life, to embody their...
Labels
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The Only Strength Powerful Enough
We live in a time of "harvest," when we are facing the reflection of our intentions, wanted and unwanted. Another way of saying this is...
Hiding
HIDING is a way of staying alive. Hiding is a way of holding ourselves until we are ready to come into the light. Even hiding the truth...
Relax….
The Fool in Me
"I must learn to love the fool in me -- the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses...
How do I listen?
How do I listen to others? As if everyone were my Master Speaking to me His Cherished Last Words. ---Hafiz
Internal freedom
— “human nature is built to give…” that may sound a little sentimental but it’s a hard,tough,real,wonderful truth about what a human being...
Thoughts on Suffering
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. —Helen Keller Almost all our suffering is the product of...
Thoughts for the New Year
"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their...
Tormented connection
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me the...
On Centering
"Centering is a verb. It is an ongoing process… Centering is not a model, but a way of balancing, a spiritual resource in times of...
What If ?
What if religion was each other? If our practice was our life? If prayer was our words? What if the Temple was the Earth? If forests were...
Stop Being So Religious
What Do sad people have in Common? It seems they have all built a shrine To the past And often go there And do a strange wail and Worship....
I Wish I Could Speak Like Music
I wish I could speak like music. I wish I could put the swaying splendor Of the fields into words So that you could hold Truth Against...
On being REAL
“’Real isn’t how you are made,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not...
There is a Resistance
"There is collective resistance to the new, collective resistance to forgiveness, collective resistance to claiming sovereignty. You all...
A Holiday Proclamation
Let none through anger or ill-will Wish harm upon another. Even as a mother protects with her life Her child, her only child, So with a...
The Eternal One
"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal...
A Native American Smoke Blessing
Oh Great Spirit, I raise smoke to the four sacred winds and the four corners, so that the blessings can reach my brothers and sisters in...
A Reminder….
Insight by Alan Cohen Graphic by Paul Reynolds