Building the Universe
On a summer morning I sat down on a hillside to think about God – a worthy pastime. Near me, I saw a single cricket; it was moving the grains of the hillside this way and that way. How great was its energy, how humble its effort. Let us hope it will always be like this, each of us going on in our inexplicable ways building the universe. from Why I Wake Early (2004) Mary...
Read MoreI trust you
Karim Sulayman – I trust you from Meredith Kaufman Younger on Vimeo. Thanks to our dear friend Jane Ely for this...
Read MoreThe Tao of Physics
“When we view ourselves in space and time, our consciousnesses are obviously the separate individuals of a particle-picture, but when we pass beyond space and time, they may perhaps form ingredients of a single continuous stream of life. As it is with light and electricity, so it may be with life; the phenomena may be individuals carrying on separate existences in space and time, while in the...
Read MoreManifesto
We are dissident bodhisattvas rebelling against all those forces that feed fear and ignore love. We are spiritual freedom fighters rising up to protect nature and foment peace and demand justice. We are subversive mystics stoking the cool blue fires of poetry and lobbying for the liberated imagination. We are militant ecstatics invoking the transformative powers of pleasure to sanctify and...
Read MoreLoneliness and Solitude
Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. Loneliness is small, solitude is large. Loneliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. Loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nobody...
Read MoreSnippets of Chaos
“Irregularity and unpredictability are important features of health. On the other hand, decreased variability and accentuated periodicities are associated with disease. Healthy systems don’t want homeostasis. They want chaos.” —John R. Van Eenwyk, “The Chaotic Dynamic* of Everyday Life,” Quest magazine “One must have chaos within oneself if one is to be a...
Read More17 things
In a world full of lists – here is one that definitely is worth the read, take your time with it – read one a day! : 1. Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind. Cultivate that capacity for “negative capability.” We live in a culture where one of the greatest social disgraces is not having an opinion, so we often form our “opinions” based on superficial...
Read MoreSimply to be seen
Here’s the deal. The human soul doesn’t want to be advised or fixed or saved. It simply wants to be witnessed — to be seen, heard and companion-ed exactly as it is. When we make that kind of deep bow to the soul of a suffering person, our respect reinforces the soul’s healing resources, the only resources that can help the sufferer make it through. — Parker Palmer (Thanks to Linda...
Read MoreRemember who dug the well
A Chinese proverb says that; “Those who drink the water must remember those who dug the well.” Everything we do, every accomplishment we have, every milestone we pass has come in part because of the efforts of others. There are no self-made men or women. If we can remember that, we can be grateful. And if we are grateful, we are more likely to develop good character than if we...
Read MoreThe miracle is…
It is the aim of science to coordinate all observable phenomena within a single natural order and it is its faith that such is possible. Hence the basic objection to acceptance of the supernatural. If the scientific stand is justified, then everything, whether of matter, energy, mind or spirit, belongs to one vast scheme — it is all one and every part has meaning in relation to the whole. This...
Read MoreDaily Reminder
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