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 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 […]
The idea of an eternal return is an ancient one that has been around since classical times. It says that the souls of humans reincarnate forever. In the old Greek myth, when people died, they drank from the waters of forgetfulness, and forgot the suffering they endured in their past incarnations on earth. They went […]
Vegas be fine, but . . .
The problem for most of us is that we see the world as an end in itself, rather than as a means to an end.
When I treat the world as an end in itself, I end up chasing money to buy happiness, power to exert control, pleasure […]
There’s a piece of each of us that never dies. It won’t die. It can’t die no matter how much we may wish it would sometimes, no matter how many times we try to cover it up, to bury it. And that part of ourselves is our innocence. It’s the spontaneous part of ourselves that […]
We search the heavens looking for that extraterrestrial Big Brother because we want to believe we’re not alone, that life isn’t an accident about to be snuffed out by the next asteroid. We want to believe our lives aren’t random. Yet life is inevitable, and as expressions of life, we’re inevitable, too.
We are meant to […]
Of all the resolutions, vows and promises that have ever been made, few have been kept. None have amounted to much anyway. When you draw your last breath, you won’t be thinking about that 20 lbs you never lost in 2015. As Carmella Soprano says in The Sopranos, in the end, it all gets washed […]
You’ve heard of the cycle of birth and death, of karma, of the endless return. Some call this recycling of psyches reincarnation. Others, the transmigration of the soul. I call it the endless wash cycle. We’re all in this infinitely-sized, frontload washing machine that alternates between rinse and spin, either hosing off the […]
I love you. Yet you loved me before I knew what love was. You made me. I didn’t make you. Together, we co-create the cosmos.
I am so much less than I wanted to be. Yet underneath the fiction of who I think I am, waiting for birth when I finally relinquish my hopes and dreams, […]
Sometimes, I think life is a race between faith and fear. I need to develop enough faith before my fears swamp me. And those fears can be about anything: money, health, what somebody thinks about me (or what I think they think about me), the End of the Friggin’ World. Doesn’t matter. Fear is a […]