These short reflections and insights range in length from twitter-length to short essays. They’re free, so what’ve you got to lose but a few moments?
If the truth were known, all people would be called good people. The fact there are people who are called good, while others are called bad – that there are a them and an us – means the truth hasn’t been fully understood. That truth is the utter necessity of forgiving everybody for everything. No […]
Everyone I encounter is a messenger, and a message never comes without reason. My task is to discern the message that each one brings. Every exchange, every interaction in human affairs is an equal exchange of information, where both parties are full partners and equal teachers of each other. Neither partner ever gives the other […]
What’s the deal with faith? Why are we surrounded by the seen, the felt, the testable and the touchable, and yet are required to believe in things that are not seen in order to make our dreams realized? In the Abrahamic religious traditions, we’re told that we must have faith. Jesus spoke again and again, […]
What if Creator finds expression for itself in its created? What if it can see the work of its hands only through our hands? Of all the universe’s wonders, of all the planets the Ineffable Self has forged in the furnaces of stars, the stars which it smelted in the crucible of galactic hearts, still, […]
I resist change. Fear closes me off from openness to change. As I was driving through the suburbs today, I saw an airliner gliding across the sky. Behind it, a V of Canada geese seemed to follow it just behind. Of course, the plane was much higher than and farther from the geese than it […]
I have this habit of posting inspirational messages to myself when I’m in a good mood: Putting up a plaque in the hallway emblazoned with a famous saying; plastering my bathroom mirror with affirmations; push-pinning my corkboard to death. The steam from my showers licks at the adhesive in the tape and the affirmation or […]
Regardless of who you are, how close or how far away you feel from your God, the number of people who consider you important, or how much you’ve acquired before you go, even whether history remembers you . . . Once you’ve died, it all fades into insignificance.
So why let all your stuff upset you? […]
In The Hero with a Thousand Faces, the late Joseph Campbell describes the journey which the mythic hero experiences. A pivotal time comes when the hero has seized the sword of their destiny and undertakes a long, grim voyage to meet their nemesis for a final battle. In The Writer’s Journey, Hollywood story consultant, Chris […]
Throughout history, humanity has searched for metaphors to communicate its current understanding of the way the universe works. In the European medieval period, when we assumed that the earth was the center of the cosmos, the universe was depicted as a series of concentric spheres which were thought to surround the earth. During the Enlightenment, […]
According to some theorists, the moment the universe, or reality, becomes a whole, it is only part of the next moment’s totality. Ever greater wholes are achieved in each moment, so that the universe is infinite expansion. The cosmos inflates endlessly in each instant, so that the next moment is infinitely greater than the universe […]