Most of my grade school and high school friends have already suffered, and have become emotionally calloused, disabled, or have died, from diseases of the spirit. I recently visited a cousin who was comatose and near death from delirium tremens Read more…
Day 12 of posting proposed chapters for book #8. I will be posting 22 chapters, total, and then selecting the top 15 for the book. Remember that Minotaur, and Theseus needing a clew (clue) to find his way out of Read more…
When the Master Speaks, WE LISTEN! The truth is like rain water pouring over jagged rocks embedded within the mountains of human ignorance through many generations, or iterations of individual self. Eventually, it wears down the rough edges, and creates Read more…
The truth is like rain water pouring over jagged rocks embedded within the mountain of human ignorance through many generations, or iterations of individual self. Eventually, it wears down the rough edges, and creates gentler pathways for future rains to Read more…
. . There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;….and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be Read more…
Be mindful, oh Mankind, of all of the painful secrets that we must keep, For, by our suffering silence, we will not awaken, but just die alone, powerless, and asleep. —–Elisha Scott . Like most of us, I have Read more…
Each and every one of us has the capacity to be an oppressor. I want to encourage each and every one of us to interrogate how we might be an oppressor and how we might be able to become Read more…
Are you wise as an owl? What is knowledge? What is a fact? What is an illusion? What is truth? What is a lie? What is a whim? What is insight? What is intuition? I have been pointing to potential Read more…
Life’s journey is forever like a dotted line pathway. It is the quality of our connections with each other that fills in the space between the dots. Empathy is the major vehicle for our consciousness to transcend our apparent differences, Read more…
But you can’t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth. We don’t have much truth Read more…
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light Read more…
Don’t you know that your body is the temple of the living God? Don’t you know that you are the light of the world?—Jesus of Nazareth . To be in realization of Truth, is to find God’s High Mount just Read more…
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it. —-Jesus of Nazareth One of the Read more…
My childhood best friend, Randy Richard Olsen, would have turned 67 years of age ⁹today, had he survived. Please forgive me Randy, if I have highlighted too much of myself in this tribute to you. This story is a thumbnail Read more…
“It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” —-Jiddu Krishnamurti American society creates the perfect conditions for our population to experience insanity and to practice addictive behaviors. We have an overabundance of predominantly misguided Read more…
In the honest seeing of our problems through insight and awareness, our freedom is ultimately attained– Variation on quotes by many spiritual teachers, prophets, saints and savants. . We all have the capacity to be spiritually erumpent, yet our lives Read more…
There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;….and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.” —-Robert Read more…
“It is No Measure of Health to Be Well Adjusted to a Profoundly Sick Society” —Jiddu Krishnamurti . Be mindful oh Mankind, of all the painful secrets that we must keep, By sharing with others we may awaken, or by Read more…
The myth of Theseus and the Minotaur is one of the most tragic and fascinating myths of the Greek Mythology. Theseus, a genuine Greek hero of the Mythology and Minotaur, one of the most devastating and terrifying monsters are the Read more…
We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other. —-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Let go of the controls of fear and powerlessness! Find your true being, and stop becoming someone Read more…