This weekend in the country the quiet outside echoed the quiet inside me where it didn’t matter at all if I was reading or semi-napping or playing solitaire on my phone or cleaning up after myself and our retreat this weekend. I was really at peace with myself, with time, with undone things, knowing deep […]
Just imagine that we are born wearing a clear set of glasses, that at birth we could see clearly ourselves in this whole new world and among the people in it. As we gain experience of the world and the people close to us, as we begin to trust that our needs will be met, […]
I am reading a book called Ignorance by a professor of neurobiology at Columbia University, Stuart Firestein, Ph.D. His thesis is that scientists do not go from one hypothesis to another, but rather they explore their own ignorance of how things work and then decide what the next thing they need to discover/research is. Science […]
Six acrobats performed amazing feats all totally dependent on each other for safety and the beauty of their routines. There is more to my dream from last June, but this is the part that so excited me even while I was dreaming it. What I read into the dream is that these well-practiced routines […]
Sitting at the bar on the deck at Joe’s Crab shack right on the beach in Jacksonville, Florida, twice last weekend, once for dinner of shrimp, shrimp and more shrimp and once for a glass of wine at sunset, I marveled at how wonderful it felt to have the wind blowing through my hair, the […]
The most important part of the listed sayings about love that I posted last week is the consistency of love. Either we are partially loving, loving some of the people around us and manipulating everyone in the guise of love, OR we are totally loving everyone in our lives, no exceptions. Love is […]
Love is an openness to, a curiosity about, to desire to know better, to be connected to, to know in depth—a positive expectancy towards the object of love. Love is not assumptions and expectations about who someone else is. Love is allowing another to be who they are. Love is not manipulative or forcing […]
Last week I wrote about essence to essence seeing. This is the essential skill for living in the kingdom of God. It means that we go from this moment to the next at the deepest level of our being, milking each experience for all its possible value. This is how God is present to […]
I am co-leading a Sunday School at my church on two contemporary figures, one Catholic—Fr. Richard Rohr(The Naked Now) and one protestant—Cynthia Bourgeault, an Anglican priest, (The Wisdom Jesus)who have had enormous influence on how I write about the Life of the Spirit. They both write and speak of non-dualistic thinking, beyond the either/or preferences […]
It takes time to live into a God-centered life, in my case many years. I started with some pretty good raw material—being tied to God no matter what I did, but much of my attachment to God was from the Hell-Fire-and-Damnation church of my childhood. There was so much to learn and even more […]