.. Hope is the last refuge of those who rely on a benevolent future. Hope doesn't go the distance when there is no expectation of a...

Most of us live on the edge of passion - the edge of each moment's potential. When we are young we fight to be in the middle of the fray...

There were times when I was writing my thoughts down - thoughts that would end up being my book - when I would reread what I wrote the...

Reason...the pinnacle of mental prowess for millennia. And look at us now. We are overthought and overwrought. I guess Hafiz saw this...

Hafiz lays into a warning for all inmates of love to find joy in their work or suffer the consequence. This caution seems to be thrown...

I have recently had the unusual experience of losing my sense of smell and taste due to a symptom of the virus Covid-19. It has inspired...

Does what we are doing today reverberate through all human experience through the ages? Somewhat of an overwhelming thought. This idea...

Hate is not the opposite of love. It is fear that is the opposite of love with the antidote being the journey to finding courage. Hate...

Who has not felt the flush of identification of realizing that one is actually in the presence of something worthy without needing it...

Not everyone is given to wonderment of the mystery of life. I'm not even sure if these fascinations are an honest pastime. It doesn't...

Hafiz surmises that we would be beside ourselves and screaming for joy were it not for our orientation towards building and maintaining...

We are born terrified. It is our nature to struggle to arrive in all that we do. We do not peck, peck, peck our way out of an egg shell...

I have been studying the occult of late. This word caused me a great deal of anxiety when I first encountered it in relation to my life...

"...It is not easy to stop thinking ill of others..." writes Hafiz. Blaming and shaming are habits we cultivate often unconsciously. We...

Being silly is big medicine. All cultures have known this. Laughter and the unexpected jams the overactive mind who is mostly involved in...

I'm a cat person but I'm fascinated by the kind of unconditional love that canines bring into our lives. They are like constant reminders...

Living in abundance and luxury has proven to be too much of a good thing for many of us...especially those of us born into a predominance...

I was raised to not trust my body. I was taught to distrust aches, pains, hunger, desires and any kind of signals I may receive from my...

What is is about being human that requires us to have so many devises to keep our ideas of ourselves safe and comfortable? Hafiz...

What is this surrendering to our fates and our designs besides a pile of words suggesting a vulnerability? To some of us, vulnerability...