Every life event, beginning with each breath and extending even to nuclear holocaust, painting our toenails and eating a carrot, has but one purpose: serving our soul’s evolution to conscious union with all of existence—God, in other words. There ain’t nothing else going on, so far as I can tell. I’d be amused to know […]
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Penned in my journal this Christmas morning: In the night, I would have been as unsurprised as I can imagine if I were to leave my body. Which is to say death was in the building. Not necessarily to announce “Your table’s ready,” as Robin Williams put it, but for some other reason under the
Laughter came too easy for life to pass me by ~ Gordon Lightfoot Among the most heartwarming compliments I’ve ever received was from a fellow I met only via email and phone. He emailed to say that he’d been reading my essays for some time and would like to chat on the phone and get
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My first go-round. It’s always such a gift to be reminded of life’s physical fragility, which in some ways is a rarity for me, man of steel that I pretend to be. Yet I am also, or certainly aspire to be, ready to say farewell at any moment. I cannot imagine too many things more
There are many juicy inquiries the exploration of which can help us discover the reality that causes our intuition to respond with a “Yess!” that reverberates throughout all of existence. One of these inquiries, one of my favorites, is whether everything is God.
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Four years ago this morning, my beloved surrendered her physical being to God. The common refrain, “losing Dear,” while understandable, is far from my experience, despite its imprint on my tender human heart.
To enquire “Who am I?” is the only remedy for all the ills of the world. It is also perfect Bliss.~ Ramana Maharshi My answer to “Who am I?” is “Manifestation of God.” Then again, that’s my take on all of existence. Of course, how completely I experience that answer in a given moment defines
In so many ways life is simple, except perhaps between our ears. If we focus our attention outside our own consciousness, our own heart, our own soul—which is to say in the direction of the worldly world—the experience of duality is the only sure thing. Everything, and its opposite. As a result, we are
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