Flickers of Light
To a rock, a tree, a building – do we not seem to be flickers of light? Moving at a speed beyond their comprehension, appearing and disappearing so very quickly. We are born and we die before the...
View ArticleTo Happily Suffer
We may drink from a profound well of heart if we choose to happily suffer. You might do so by joyfully providing uncomfortable or painful service to another, perhaps as a parent to your child. You...
View ArticleCold and Damp
To sit in the darkness, in the cold and damp, is unpleasant on the creature level. Much better is it to sit in the sunshine, in the dry warmth of unfolded day. Only the wild things remember to love the...
View ArticleNot By The Likes Of You
Aggression is bound up in ego and identity. There is the primary mental experience of aversion and dislike we experience with the other. That’s quickly followed by mental chasing of the blank banner –...
View ArticleSeeds and Sprouts of Faith
Faith, or complete spiritual trust, has its youth, middle age, and flowered wisdom. It begins as a seed of consolation, sprouts into acceptance, and flowers ultimately as grace. Faith is not hope or...
View ArticleFaith In Provision, People As They Are
One of the most natural consequences of Faith In Provision is acceptance of People As They Are. On the other hand, Faith In Merit means refusing People As They Are. When you believe you must earn the...
View ArticleThe River of Identity
There is a grand pride of occupation. There is a self-congratulations grinning out of relationships. In the flux of self and world, a thousand lures of false certainty would claim your heart for the...
View ArticleThe Cave of Self
He who sits to meditate emerges from a tiny cave of self, blinking and blinded by the streaming light of the larger Self. But he who strives endlessly toward the ends of the world huddles into the...
View ArticleThe Last Check Mark
You’re a tumbling, rushing mess. The last of each day’s tasks races ahead of you. The future’s calendar overflows with scribbled, hurried notes. Until, one day, like the silence after a landslide, it...
View ArticleSpiritual Shielding
There will be times when you are confounded, confused, afflicted. These times are not to be taken lightly. Foolish is he who senses dark movements and dismisses them as superstition. Failing is she who...
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