Invisibility In A Time Of Transparency
What is the difference between being invisible and just landing in a blind spot? In the woods no more than an hour, I am struck anew...
Ambiguity Of Violence
It is the ambiguity of violence, that we can pull a trigger as an act of hideous aggression or of self-sacrificing love, that is so...
A Higher Level Of Conscious Engagement
We live in an age of spiritual smorgasbord: People are mixing concepts, aphorisms, and insights from a broad variety of mystical and...
Two Drops Of Oil
A merchant sent his son to learn the Secret of Happiness from the wisest of men. The young man wandered through the desert for forty days...
Thirsty For Wonder
Contemplative life flows in a circular pattern: awe provokes introspection, which invokes awe. Maybe you’re making dinner and...
The False Dichotomy Between Being And Doing
One believes that "being" and "doing" are different. Often, "just being" is regarded as preferable or...
If There Is No Self, Whose Arthritis Is This?
"If there is no self, whose arthritis is this?" is one of a list of a dozen questions that have been appearing regularly...
Not Taking Things Personally
An unfortunate side effect of our consciousness residing in our brains is that everything we experience in our lives involves us somehow....
Emptiness Cafe
Life moves Like shadow and light, Instantaneously appearing, Though I cannot find time itself. Cities mirrored in thought, Nothing...
The Hole-y Bucket
A student approaches the teacher with the question, “Could you help me with a question I've been struggling with -- what is the...
Solitude Is Where Community Begins
Solitude is where community begins. That’s where we listen to God. Sometimes I think of life as a big wagon wheel with many spokes....
We Are Weavers
we are weavers woven into and from an ancient ever renewing fabric on an invisible loom more subtle than breath at one...