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Saturday, June 11, 2022
Knowing our Purpose
Most people don't dwell very much on the question of life's meaning. Most of our questions are about acquisition and activity; concerns with what I have and what I do. The equation of the surface mind is this: who I become is…
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
"You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good..." These are Joseph's words to his brothers who had deserted him and left him to suffer. (Genesis 50:20)
In order for us to remain in the I of the Storm, that place of wholeness and wellbeing,…
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
“Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. “ - Rumi
These words by Rumi are echoed nearly identically in A Course in Miracles; a spiritual philosophy that has…
Saturday, April 23, 2022
I have heard that we are born with only two primary fears, the fear of falling and the fear of loud sounds. All other fears are apparently acquired along the trajectory of our life experiences.
I can relate to the fear of falling most readily……
Sunday, March 20, 2022
Who You Are, More or Less
Perhaps the journey to understanding ourselves is made easier as we get older simply because it is a process of subtraction. While I don't claim to have "arrived" in full self-awareness, I have made progress with the…
Monday, March 14, 2022
Is that Transcendence Calling?
Blowing through heaven and earth, and in our hearts and the heart of every living thing, is a gigantic breath—a great Cry—which we call God.
– Nikos Kazantzakis
In the Talmud, there is a phrase that reads, Every blade…
Saturday, February 19, 2022
"These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.'
-Jesus - John 15:11
What Jesus, and other masters of life, have taught and revealed, is that it is entirely possible to experience well-being…
Saturday, February 12, 2022
This Sunday we will take up the next awareness in our Untethered Soul series as we explore the topic of finding the "boon beyond comfort." This topic is perhaps the most uncomfortable and yet most profitable to explore. As the subtitle of our book…
Saturday, February 5, 2022
Have you been successful in controlling even one person in this world, let alone the countless personalities that pose risks to our fragile psyches each day? Can you control the weather, traffic, government actions, mechanical breakdowns, the…
Saturday, January 22, 2022
Love is innate to us; it's part of us. From the Judeo- Christian perspective we are made in the image of Divine Love; an aspect of our true nature in the Buddhist tradition. Love is inherent to our very Being. While it may be obscured by…