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To Be Alive – Mar. 29, 2022

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” ―Alan Watts, from 1960 lecture “On the Meaning of Life”

How to Love God

The words “Hear, O Israel, the Lord is God, the Lord is One” have been familiar to me for longer than I can remember. Of course, I tend to remember them better in the original Hebrew that I learned to chant as soon as I could talk, and Jesus seems to have learned a different […]

Beyond Ideas – Sep. 22, 2020

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,     there is a field. I’ll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grass,     the world is too full to talk about.Ideas, language, even the phrase each other     doesn’t make any sense. –Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, 13th century