Purpose and Possibility
To threaten the order of things, pushing against how they’ve always been, is dangerous business. The enlightened ones, not trapped by chronological time or societal expectations, grow beyond the boundaries of how equality has been defined from age to age. Throughout all time, one’s culturally focused fairness lens is largely accepted as gospel. Yet this […]
What Is Your Gift? – May 11, 2020
“The most important thing each of us can know is our unique gift and how to use it in the world. Individuality is cherished and nurtured, because, in order for the whole to flourish, each of us has to be strong in who we are and carry our gifts with conviction, so they can be […]
You Are a Little World – Mar. 20, 2020
“By my bedside is a reproduction of a scroll by a Zen monk of the seventeenth century, a great calligrapher named Tetsugyu. The translation of the characters is “Self revealed: all things in heaven and earth exist in oneself.” The discovery that “all things are there” within the human heart is one of the great […]
Given Joy – Jan. 3, 2020
“There are those that have in themselves the gift of Joy. It has no relation to merit or demerit. It is not a quality they have wrested from the vicissitude of life. Such people have not fought and won a hard battle, they have made no conquest. To them Joy is given as a precious […]
