A seed dropped in fertile ground needs no more than finding this place to take root. It has just one job. Encouragement nurtures the...

A few words about guidance. Hafiz references friends here. Not too many people are aware or care how or why or if their lives receive...

To be deeply religious is to be scrupulously faithful and conscientious. To do this with the sadness that passes through our lives far...

Loving one's life is a deeply personal joy. Compassion is a way to draw this love out of ourselves. It feeds us with strength enabling us...

Blame is the main sustenance for shame and shame sleeps in the fertile bed of perfection and over achievement. In our culture we do not...

Yearning like hoping pulls us out of present time and into expectations and dreams of moments that are finer than what we own. Hafiz...

Every journey's end is a beginning. Sometimes in trying to understand the world we become so weary of our task that we resort to begging...

One wonders how living authentically became such a thing. At least I do. The subject snuck up on me personally escorted by a chorus I...

Higher education. We are raised to believe and, as infants, it is confirmed constantly that we are not the most powerful embodiment in...

Most people that I know - including myself - are beleaguered by our thoughts. Our minds think all our waking hours. This torment is most...

What happens to the grist in the mill when no one shows up to tend to the stone? These days the grist is the information...and the stone?...

There is a lot of crookedness, abuse of power, and shade in the world and it won't just go away without taking innocent lives with it....

There is something about how we expect all things to be easier than they truly are that drives our cynicism. Perhaps it is because this...

When we take off our shoes, we choose our own adventure. This poem tells a parable about a competition for the most spiritual and the...

We are in the midst of great changes that involve more people than this planet has ever before hosted. The numbers exponentially advance...

I'm much better at listening than speaking. My silence has made me in the past feel like a thief and ashamed. I've since found out that I...

Sometimes in life it is about letting go. Sometimes those things needing to go are really big things and one cannot imagine a world...

I have heard it said - and I've said it myself - that there is nothing new under the sun when it comes to human behavior. Not much has...

Access to love is for everyone for the asking. This is fleeting news that has not nearly enough meat on it even to the starving. Yet it...

In days long ago; days displaced from this modern world and all of its occupations, there were deities and beliefs based on observable...