Unconditional Love Really Exists
Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of...
Kintsugi
When a bowl, teapot or precious vase falls and breaks into a thousand pieces, we throw them away angrily and regretfully. Yet there is an...
If It Can Suffer, It's Real
Many people believe that truth conveys power. Unfortunately, this is just a comforting myth. In fact, truth and power have a far more...
Conscious Completion
Youth is peppered with conspicuous firsts. And unless we’re really trying, life's lasts can tend to sneak past, unnoticed. Your...
Secret Kinship With The Other
Perhaps genes aren’t the only thing that we’ve been shaped to try and save. Maybe altruism evolves to recognize affinity,...
Self-Compassion Over Self-Esteem
The great angst of modern life is this: no matter how hard we try, no matter how successful we are, no matter how good a parent, worker,...
The Balancing Force
The type of security and protection that we expect in this world of human beings is based on the humanly conceived notion of what is good...
Accept What Is, Lead To Improve
“Accepting what is” and trusting the Universe is an essential approach to life. But so is “fighting for change.”...
Mother Trees In A Wood Wide Web
Elders fill a special role in any community, having earned the respect of the tribe for their life-long wisdom, knowledge, and teaching....
The World Feeling And The Soul Feeling
For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? —Matthew 16:26 Recall the kind of feeling you...
A Life On The Ground
Question: ... the idea of having “a life on the ground”. Can you expand on what that means to you? That brings back a...
We Are All Beggars
A lived theology of the bottom does not see the world through good and evil lenses. This is not a denial of the existence of evil,...