Is Silence the Answer?
Silence doesn’t echo itself. It doesn’t create copies of itself. Silence waits for us to slow down enough that we can hear the deep...
Category: Passages
Tomorrow Finally Came
While I was living on Planet Earth, which was until quite recently, I never referred to ‘tomorrow’ as anything other than a period of...
How to Write a Memoir
Writing a memoir can be as simple as taking a stroll through the neighborhood, and is often undertaken for similar reasons: we’re looking for...
Destination Unknown
There is something about long journeys to new places; the memories always stay with us. As well as the Amtrak trips I have taken...
My Dreaming Self
A few weeks ago, I awoke from a dream and as I made my way through the darkness into the kitchen it continued to...
Caught in the Act of World Creation
Early this morning, I awoke in a dream. I was in a washroom of the kind you find in public buildings, when a man...
Must be Present to Win
Each morning, I read some pages to settle my mind and sit for 30 minutes before diving into my day. Over many months, I’ve...
Venturing into the Known
A thought dropped into my mind a few mornings ago. A bit of background may be useful if this thought is to lead anywhere...
The Ineffable
I was reading a book this morning and encountered the unfamiliar image of “confusion” being the self’s way of “twisting not-knowing to gain control...
The World is Lonely Too
How would I know that the world is lonely? Surely, I’m just projecting a personal feeling onto the environment in which that feeling arises....