Why the urge to improve myself?
With You
Consort of clouds, beloved of the flowers, no boundaries confine my flight or wanderings. Slipping through the cracks in you armor, I am...
Didja Know?…
Rising rates of intermarriage are helping to dissipate ethnic and religious strife worldwide Death rates from cancer are shrinking. The...
Alike
The Point Is…
The point here is to take life in all its rich variety just as it is, with its ten thousand opposites, and to go along with whatever...
Enlightenment = destruction
“Make no mistake about it – Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or becoming happier....
Learning Deeply…
Teacher: We want you to learn these teachings so deeply that they lie upon your heart Student: Why don't you just put them in our hearts?...
Rise and Fall
Let go of fear and rest in that which is. For peace, like love, comes to those who allow it. Let go of fear and rest in stillness. Watch...
Security
The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant...
Your Life is a Masterpiece
"Everything has been figured out, except how to live," sneered the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. That's bombastic and...
The Sun in Drag
You are the Sun in drag You are God hiding from yourself. Remove all the "mine"- that is the veil Why ever worry about Anything? Listen to...
A Thomas Merton Primer
"Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to...
Where do we start?…
"Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are...
The H-Word
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and...
How to get your art into the world
“How to get your art into the world: be obsessed with creating and more creating and in keeping the fire burning and rising. Then let it...
Happiness turned to me…
Happiness turned to me and said, “It is time. It is time to forgive yourself of all of the things you did not become. It is time to...
Whatever you do today
Whatever you're going to do today, please, do it to the best of your ability. As if it were all that mattered; as if it were all you had;...
Who are you really putting into darkness?
“What you deny the Divine in, you put in darkness. What you put in darkness, who you put in darkness, claims you in that darkness. And you...
Sometimes
1. Something came up out of the dark. It wasn’t anything I had ever seen before. It wasn’t an animal or a flower, unless it was both....
What did you do as a child…..?
Thank you Michelle for this find
What matters…
A few years ago, at the Seattle Special Olympics, nine contestants, all physically or mentally disabled, assembled at the starting line...
Humility=superpower
"A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world," wrote occultist Aleister Crowley. Author Gore Vidal...
Finding God
A woman came to see the great Indian saint, Ramakrishna and said: "I find that I do not love God. The concept does not move me. I cannot...
Falling in love
Letting the heart break open awakens us to the mystery of love-that we can't help loving others, in spite of the pain they cause us, for...