When Lao Tsu says, in Stephen Mitchell’s rendering, “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving,” he is not suggesting the spiritual traveler wander around directionless. Many animals are guided by the Earth’s magnetic poles;…
Two days makes three weeks since you left us…left me. Every three days for the last month I surrender to the hands of my chiropractor who puts my body back together again. He says it is the stress that is…
Yesterday and today I was signed up for a conference and training on gambling. I thought, I’m in Las Vegas, it’s free, I should go. I know that voice, the part of me who packs my calendar like a closet…
There is a universal stream. We know we are riding the current when things fall into place. We know we are swimming upstream when our effort begins to cost us – when we are tight, rigid, and weary to the…
Touch is the first sense to develop in utero and often the last sense to leave before death. Of the five major senses (touch, sight, hearing, smell, taste), touch is the only one that we cannot live without. It is…
Everyone has an opinion or a truth about God, spirituality, and the essence of how the whole thing works. I’m not any different in that respect…with one exception…I know that my belief system is just a belief system. It’s not…
I often say that it is not our issues that are really our biggest difficulty; our biggest difficulty is the issues we have with our issues. We often cannot even get to addressing the issue at hand because we are…
Everybody needs a God. Now, if you’re an atheist and that puts you on edge, read on, ‘cause there’s a place for you in here as well. The first thing we need to do in order to understand this phrase…
Humans need belief systems. They give our world order and structure. It’s not really important what the belief system is, but it is in our nature to need one. That’s just the way human psychology works. My belief system is…
I’ve been on the planet for a good amount of time now, and have learned quite a bit along the way. And while there is a beauty in accumulating a wad of skills and wisdom, there is also a shadow…
It is easier to love broadly and generally,
to see the face of God in every being,
to keep the details at a distance like when you kind-of
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Being a parent for the first time can be a steep learning curve. We don’t quite know how to “do it right,” we lack confidence, we don’t know what our little one’s messages mean, certainly not at the beginning. Being…