truth seeking & tunneled light
truth seeking yesterday, I said I was waiting for the truth on the page…… today I am more comfortable with the waiting….and of course, things now are flowing more easily… keeping beauty close….like...
View Articlefinding the sunshine in a to-do list…
gentle space calling The Word Down near the bottom of the crossed-out list of things you have to do today, between “green thread” and “broccoli” you find that you have penciled “sunlight.” Resting on...
View Articlethe radiance of our ecstatic life
Let us consider the deepest and most fundamental element in all strong and sincerely felt religious emotion. Faith unto salvation, trust, love- all these are there. But over and above these is an...
View Articleit doesn’t have to be so hard
It’s entirely conceivable that life’s splendor surrounds us all, and always in its complete fullness, accessible but veiled, beneath the surface, invisible, far away. But there it lies, not hostile,...
View Articlearticulating insight
To speak of wilderness is to speak of wholeness. Human beings came out of that wholeness. ….Gary Snyder peering into wholeness maps our psyche in all directions, in all facets of our lives….a...
View Articleoutwitting the ego’s humanness
The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous (a sense of the holy). But the fact is that the approach to the numinous is...
View Articlelive in the paradox between soft & wild
The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are moments when we touch one another, when we are there in the most attentive or caring way. This simple and profound...
View Articlethe gifted moment
Over time, if we’re paying attention, if we are given enough days on this beautiful earth. . . . many of the certainties we were taught, much of what we were so sure of when we were young. . . falls...
View Articletime to retreat
Don’t treat yourself so gingerly; you can let go of stuff. Sometimes it takes three breaths instead of two to do it, but you can do it. Be a little tougher and don’t cling to stuff. People go around...
View Articlesomehow love brings us home
I just don’t think I’m looking for the big moments in life anymore. It’s more the simple ones that make for a beautiful day now. Like the sun rising and the moon dancing, and the wind singing and the...
View Articleprinciples of being
As we settle into the effortless ease of experiences being known, we can ask ourselves the illuminating question “Known by what?” and then look to see if there is anything to find. This is the great...
View Articlewatery days
Can you imagine moving through your day, appreciating the hearts and spirits of those you engage with, the beauty of clouds, birds, grasses, and trees? Of course you also include what’s painful,...
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