Perceiving Spirit
Close both eyes; See with the Other one. Cover both ears; Hear with the Other one. Quiet my mind. Open my heart. Peer into infinity. Listen to my body. These senses Perceive my spirit, The true nature...
View Articlehurt fail lose; grow succeed gain: lessons & pain
Sometimes we must be hurt in order to grow. Sometimes we must fail in order to know. Sometimes we must lose in order to gain. Because some lessons in life are best learned through pain. A wise friend...
View ArticleWhat is not Love; What is not Light
False: It is possible to work against ideas and actions which run counter to your own without hating the people who espouse and act upon them. For example, I can love and feel compassion for the person...
View ArticleLiberty, Intelligence and Courage ~ Mastery
People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take. ~ Emma Goldman Mmmmm… perhaps, but I think not. People have only so much liberty as their mastery of...
View ArticleThe Speck Becomes the Sea
We are, each of us, a speck, living on a speck, rotating around a speck which is just one of billions of specks clustered in a speck. Here am I experiencing my own infinitesimal significance. I...
View ArticleOn the Timefullness of Beauty and Annie Lennox
Timefull Beauty Some say beauty fades with time. Not at all. The Wisdom, insight and presence we earn with the practice of living are beauty’s greatest markers. Close your eyes and listen for the...
View ArticleLove, faith and compassion: unconditionally
I don’t care whether someone Believes in God, or not Whether they have faith In science or metaphysics Reason or religion Or some mish-mash of them all. What I care about is if they believe in love...
View ArticleThe bearable burden of kindness.
If you’re not nice to me I’ll try to be nice to you anyway. Why should I let your actions dictate What kind of person I am? The burden of unkindness Is too heavy for me.
View ArticleYour truth is your truth
Even if you are A minority of one, The truth Is the truth. Still, you cannot create a world In which others will not impose Their truth Upon your truth While imposing yours Upon theirs One truth there...
View ArticleIt hurts, all this. ~ Sherlock Holmes
On the TV series, Elementary, Sherlock Holmes explains to Agatha why he cannot donate his sperm so she can have a baby with his DNA and, hopefully, his gifts. Sherlock: You’re right. I am… remarkable....
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