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Who’s on Second?

Posted on 05/29/2020 by Michael Gray
When ‘self’ and ‘mind’ get together—usually in the thoroughfares of philosophy, religion or spiritual inquiry—mind is usually considered the guardian of knowledge and stability;...
Companions in Time heart, mind, self

A New Year’s Greeting

Posted on 12/31/2019 by Michael Gray
Our Hard-won Treasure I wonder why this doesn’t feel stranger than it does. Here I am, very early in the world, standing on the...
Passages body, heart, hope, mind

“Playfulness of Thoughts”

Posted on 03/28/2018 by Michael Gray
This morning, while practicing “Playfulness of Thoughts”–an exercise in Dynamics of Time and Space (DTS)–I discovered just how ‘unplayful’ I’m feeling these days. This...
A Creative Non-Fiction about TSK comfort and ease, dread, Dynamics of Time and Space, High Blood Pressure, knowledge, mind, Mother Earth, Playfulness, stress

Four Approaches to the Gate of Understanding

Posted on 11/28/2017 by Michael Gray
Learning Opportunities Missed There once was a boy in Pointe Claire Who in high school would often just stare When asked any question He’d...
Time, Space, and Knowledge bystander, feeling, knowledge, mind, questions, space, thinking, time, understanding

From Far Off Mountains

Posted on 07/18/2017 by Michael Gray
My wife and I are planning to visit a friend in Durango tomorrow. Our major preparation has been to get family members to look...
Passages adventures, Alberta, dream, Durango, memory, mind, narratives, quarter horses, reality, stories, Vancouver

Do Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth

Posted on 05/18/2016 by Michael Gray
There is some pretty unreliable advice floating around. Take the maxim: —–“Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.” Anyone who has read Homer’s...
Timely Aging Gift Horse, Homer, humanity, Iliad, Materialistic, mind, self, technological, world

Spontaneity and Wholeness.

Posted on 05/10/2016 by Michael Gray
Coming home to the potential of our lives, we see that everything we try to hold on to is a seed, blown in from...
Mailbag Being, field, home, mind, particle, Quantum Theory, sea, space, space field, Spontaneity, sun, wave, Wholeness

May All Beings Be Well

Posted on 01/26/2016 by Michael Gray
Torn down enough already this morning  (A poem by Ken Mckeon) To furnish a junkyard, The chained dogs, my New found friends, They bark...
Timely Aging Age, Buddha, centering, heart, love, mantra, may all beings be well, mind, Om Mani Padme Hum

Forrest Gump and Helen (by Pat Simmons)

Posted on 12/08/2015 by Michael Gray
Here are four short pieces written  by Pat Simmons.  I know Pat as a friend, writing buddy and the Executive Director of “Friends in...
Mailbag ALS, Forrest Gump, Friends in Time, Lou Gehrig's Disease, mind, MS, Tooth cavities, water

Opportunities and Obligations.

Posted on 12/03/2015 by Michael Gray
It occurred to me this week that the distinction between “opportunity” and “obligation” is largely one of perspective. I awake each morning, and sometimes...
Companions in Time "Shift into Freedom", awareness, Buddhism, freedom, Loch Kelly, mind, obligations, opportunities, science, spirituality, thinking
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