the purity of the winter-white soul
Seeing with spiritual vision means looking past appearances and perceiving what is ordinarily assumed to be invisible. Universal love is more easily recognized when one is not obsessed with a...
View Articlesoulful prayers for a new year of gratitude
When they stay quiet in the muteness of naked truth, resting in a simple and open-eyed awareness, attentive to the darkness which baffles them, a subtle and indefinable peace begins to seep into their...
View Article2013 blessings for a transcendent new year
Transformation not only shifts how you view the world, but also how you relate to the world. In every situation, ask yourself, ‘Am I being an actor or a victim? Am I valuing or devaluing? Am I focused...
View Articlethe strength of the heart meets the fragile journey
As we enter the deeper levels of awareness and reality itself, we know less and less about cause and effect. There’s a top-down as well as a bottom-up causation. I don’t think we can know a lot about...
View Articlethe gentle art of finding shells & finding souls
Give me nothing fixed, set, static. Don’t give me the infinite or the eternal: nothing of infinity, nothing of eternity. Give me the still, white seething, the incandescence and coldness of the...
View Articleperspectives of the wild, caged heart
According to a ‘A Course in Miracles,’ our job is to tell someone they’re right, even when they’re wrong. That doesn’t mean we’re supposed to lie. It does mean, however, that it’s always our mission to...
View Articleslow down ahead
Again there was a pervasive silence…but this time no movement came. I left the chapel as a feather floats in the wind…Outside I had a difficult time because I was continually falling back into this...
View Articlecan we be strong in profound humility?
We search everywhere outside ourselves to try to find ourselves. We collect experiences, relationships, knowledge, and objects. We hope recognition from others to validate our importance. But while we...
View Articlewhat is not grace is never graceless
Heavy drops, carrying more than they can bear, fall from no- where, bending leaves already sagging, and one by one, the leaves let go. They drift to the earth, each quiet as a master juggler missing...
View Articleangels of Christmas magic
It’s imperative for us to understand that spiritual practice is not just something we do when we’re sitting in meditation or when we’re on retreat. Failing to see everything as an opportunity for...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....