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?
When something is meant to be, it just is. It just happens. What a glorious miracle are the parade of accidents that make up our lives. Some of the best things that ever happen happen by accident, or because of a mistake.
It’s a blow to the human ego, but a lot of what we try […]
‘I’m horny. You?’
I’ve discovered a remedy for taking myself too seriously, which I often do. And that remedy is this: go and get some Bluegrass music. Not that shit that passes for bluegrass today. Not the country-rock-blues stuff. But the breakdown music with banjoes that chug on like locomotives and fiddles that flay […]
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 […]
To be human is to be limited. It is to be finite. If there is God, then by definition it is infinite. If we are essentially human at our core, on a voyage towards paradise, then we never get there. We would then be on an infinite journey.
Lots of ifs, but what else can we […]
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 […]
Our role is to be children of God. 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 role of Devil. Most times, it casts us in different roles between these extremes. It assigns to us any part besides that which […]
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 […]