“You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone.” William Stafford Like a lot of us, I began waking up spiritually when I reached my adolescence. Suddenly it seemed my mind was able to understand reality in a way… Continue Reading
“Run, run, run but you can’t hide for that which you run from is inside.” Wali Ahmed Sababu I’ve been afraid most of my life and this has been both a gift and a curse. It’s not always a giant… Continue Reading
“ If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.” William Blake Recently I spent a… Continue Reading
“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. You must wake up with sorrow. You must speak to it till your voice catches the thread of all sorrows and you… Continue Reading
“The spirit is so near that you can’t see it! But reach for it… don’t be a jar, full of water, whose rim is always dry. Don’t be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that… Continue Reading
“Things happen. That’s all they ever do.” Taylor Goldsmith “Toward the end of his life, the Buddha took his disciples to a quiet pond for instruction. As they had done so many times before, the Buddha’s followers sat in a… Continue Reading
“But the times when we were happy Were the times we never tried.” -Jackson Browne Recently, my wife and I spent 24 continuous hours traveling from Hilton Head Island to Charleston, South Carolina to Charlotte, North Carolina to Los Angeles… Continue Reading
“Yes, the answer lies within So why not take a look now?” Cat Stevens I was about 16 or 17 when I awakened to the fact I was sleeping. And by sleeping, I mean a kind of spiritual snooze. I… Continue Reading
“Let there be peace on Earth and let it begin with me.” They were an older couple, in their 50s. She was a receptionist and he was a security guard, both with alcoholic histories, but thanks to AA and perseverance,… Continue Reading
Each man’s death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind. John Donne I was about 10 years old when I first saw death. It was 1966 and I was in Sunday school at Bruen Chapel, a Methodist church in… Continue Reading
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