I’ve just begun teaching a new class on Mindfulness at the Methodist Church and thought it might be appropriate to cover the topic in this column. The actual title of the class is: Rising Up When Reality Slaps Us Down:… Continue Reading
“Anger makes you smaller while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.” Cherie Carter-Scott In previous columns in this series, I have attempted to lay out the bread crumbs necessary for us to find our way back to… Continue Reading
“If I had one wish One dream I knew would come true I’d want to speak to all the people of the world I’d get up there, I’d get up there on that platform First I’d sing a song or… Continue Reading
“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” Mahatma Gandhi In my previous column, I attempted to delineate the basic steps, the ping-pong volleys, if you will, of human conflict. Someone feels pain and expresses… Continue Reading
“Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.” H.G. Wells I know I am… Continue Reading
“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
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