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
