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Steve by Jamey Stillings
Steve Roberts
serves fellow explorers
of life’s two most important questions:
What’s going on,
and what’s the healthiest action I can take in this moment?
To this end, Steve champions
the most fear-provoking point of view
the world has ever known:
Everything is a gift,
and the business of life is discovering how come.
He finds the spirit of the universe to be
playful, loving, deep.
Besides laughter and the sharing of experience,
his expressions of this spirit include
several hundred essays,
a novel, some 2000 drawings,
countless stone sculptures
built & photographed
on his Vermont mountainside
over a quarter century, and
a portfolio of professional communication
for clients who favor a collaborator
who aspires to write like a freight train
driven by Mother Teresa.

Death Wish

Do you ever think that every event in your life is designed to help you live your life purpose, the core reason you’re alive? Maybe it’s like hide and seek.  The universe embeds deep meaning in everything––licorice popcorn; the Serenity Prayer; or something really wacky: discovering that the stranger we met on a train can

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Tattoos on the Heart

❦ Sharing my discoveries and welcoming yours is the purpose of this little playground.  I hope you’ll add your voice when it feels right. If you’d like to explore working together, click on Q&A, or visit my other website, CoolMindWarmHeart.com

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Soar Throat

The king of sore throats came to town that evening.  By midnight, gargling an ocean of salt water had provided only modest relief.

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Incomprehensible Demoralization

Recently, my son, daughter, and 19 year-old grandson, who live together in Rochester, New York, upon returning home from an afternoon outing of several hours, discovered in their kitchen an umbrella they’d never before seen.  How it got there when all doors had been securely locked was a mystery solved only after a half-hour of

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What’s Worth Any Amount of Time and Effort

A monk of my acquaintance for the past 20 years or so, a disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda, founder of Self-Realization Fellowship in 1920, has recently been anointed president of that organization. His name is Brother Chidananda.  He is a man of wisdom, wit and a deep, clear-minded understanding of the teachings Yogananda.   At their

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Life As Preparation

In my warm bed on a night approaching fall, I awake and look to check the time and find the bedroom electric clock blinking.  Power had gone off and eventually back on.  I decide to get up and reset the bedroom clock as well as the one on the kitchen stove. Returning, I snuggle in

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We Are So Powerful

Go deep.  Be useful. That’s the mantra of my life in the world.  The sign over the shop door, you might say.  So when I think about how to begin these explorations into what I call the spirit of the universe, I’m confronted by the question: What is the most important thing I’ve learned in

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Introduction

Every child has known God. Not the God of names, Not the God of don’ts, Not the God who ever does anything weird, But the God who only knows Four words. And He keeps repeating them, saying: “Come dance with me.” Come Dance. ~ Hafez This blog is meant for every person who aspires to

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