Preface: In what seems like a lifetime ago, A News Café published part one of a piece I wrote titled “Explaining Myself,” in which I described a series of self-inflicted mishaps that I endured...
Author: Douglas Craig
I live in Redding, Calif., where, along with a thousand of our neighbors, our home was rudely and suddenly consumed by a wall of fearless flame and summarily reduced to rambling heaps of sad ashes and shattered shards of her previous pride, scattered and strewn about carelessly in the solemn space that once comprised our ordered, routine and predictable life;
“After a mistake, any mistake, there is a moment that pleads for someone to say it wasn’t. And in its place, explain how it all fits in the grand design. That is what we...
We are all confused in this world. We desperately need certainty – some way to figure out who is right and who is wrong. We want to know who is good and who is bad so we know who to love and who to hate. We sort ourselves into our different teams or tribes and join the endless war where everyone knows their truth and talks and shouts at the same time and no one hears. No one listens.
“You are a secret that cannot be told. There is no way anyone can know the secret except by being close to you. Now you know why people want to be close to each...
“The menu is not the meal.” Alan Watts “The human condition: lost in thought.” Eckhart Tolle In my last column I promised to share my final five thoughts about spiritual maturity. You are not...
“When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don’t...
“When I go away from this life, I want you to remember my love for you. That’s all.” Teresa Wynn* We’ve all had those moments when everything suddenly changed. One moment life is one...
“When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I look outside and see that I am everything, that is love. And between these two, my life turns.” Sri...
“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” Dalai Lama “Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.” Emma Goldman “Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we...
