Why Can’t I Escape my Thoughts?
It’s certainly easier said than done, but I’ve begun to understand an ancient insight: that when I encounter circumstances that I am unable to...
Category: Companions in Time
Super Natural
I’ve just read an interesting book by Whitley Strieber and Jeffrey Kripal. The title, “Super Natural”, is deliberately distinguished from the word, “supernatural”, which...
Hardware or Software
It can take a while before I am ready to make a change. But after living with gathering inconvenience, the day sometimes arrives when...
Searching for Better Tenants
Humility is an experience of the commonality of all human beings. As we experience this commonality, our attitude toward life becomes light and open....
Little Boat, Little Boat
Riding along in my little boat I notice many others floating alongside. Some have sails, some have oars, and in some I can only...
Hocus Pocus, Bogus Focus
The other morning, I was watching Kiva, our cat, out in the back yard. Her focus was unwavering as she jumped from some blade...
Dancing in the Silence
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” Friedrich Nietzsche I don’t want...
Do Dolphins Dream?
I’ve met a human who has become important to me. He sits at the end of a long wooden dock in his metal chair...
Truths I have known
Some truths are anchored to the situations to which they pertain. Some truths are like a bird trying to get airborne, discovering its ability...
Three Manifestations, One Heart
I’ve always thought that Christianity is monotheist: one God above all. It seems that this Christian God is not only above all, watching every...