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?
The more time I spend in the woods, the more time I want to spend with them. Yesterday, I limbed a pinyon I’d spent days cutting down. The work became easier. Much easier than expected. The first part – cutting down an oversized tree with a 12″ diameter trunk, was much more difficult. I never […]
You to begin to focus on where you’re going. But where you’re going is toward fuller awareness of where you already are. In a sense, it’s where you’ve already been. It’s told that we need to focus on the journey, and not the destination. Maybe that’s because the journey is an infinite one within ourselves.
I […]
If I were smart enough to figure it out, then I could prove it to you. And there’d be no argument.
If it were small enough to see it all at once, then it wouldn’t be big enough to be the mystery that it is.
If words could describe it, then a book would explain it. So […]
A great thinker once remarked that we are on an infinite journey toward an infinite God. And since we are finite, we never get there.
I don’t know whether this is true. From this side of the veil, from our human side, it certainly seems that way. To be human is to be limited. It is […]
Why do bad things happen to good people? And why, oh why, do good things happen to bad people? They just don’t deserve ’em.
Truth is–
Bad things happen to good people.
Bad things happen to bad people.
Good things happen to good people.
Good things happen to bad people.
What’s good, and what’s bad anyway?
Who’s bad and who’s good? That’s […]
We are children of an uncreated light. Yet our egos sometimes have different roles they’d like us to play. Sometimes, my ego assigns to me the role of God. Sometimes, the part of devil. Most of the time, it casts me in roles between these extremes. It assigns me any part besides that which I […]
God is the sum total of all that is unknowable. Humility is total dependence on God for all things. Therefore, humility is dependence upon the unknowable. It’s trust in what can’t be known with certainty. It’s faith in what can never be grasped fully by the intellect.
And this, perhaps, is the reason so few of […]
The Infinite understands you, but you don’t understand it.
The Endless comprehends what it is, yet you don’t comprehend what you are.
This is the unilateral nature of existence.
In understanding is awareness, and awareness is all, is life itself.
A river flows in only one direction. In the same way, the creative force of the cosmos extends from […]
The paradox is that the targets for change lie within, things like my selfishness, my fear, my lust and my greed. Yet I must take actions outside my self to effectuate these changes.
The journey is an inward one, yet it manifests itself through outward action. I need do nothing, since I am a child of […]
When it seems as if all is lost, all is closest to being gained. The moment of our greatest defeat is in reality the instant before our greatest victory. And so victory and defeat are close companions, as alike as the joy and the sorrow which they bring. Who can tell the difference between laughter […]