Love
To love and to be loved is the deepest longing for every human being on this planet. This longing, and inevitable failure to fulfill this longing, is the core of all of our upsets, problems, confusions.
Our Divine Nature
I am, in my deepest soul, one with the All. Who I really am cannot be hurt; I can only learn to love more deeply. By being willing to accept where I am at fault, where I am weak, where I have refused my own divine nature, I am then available to life.
Help?!?
It is only human to strive for more and better. Without this natural desire we would not improve or evolve. Like any natural desire, some of us take this to the extreme and others of us ignore it all together. This does not make anyone better or worse, more evolved or less so, only in
A Parade
Of orphans Each clamoring for my attention No me No me My way You’re stupid No you are Please take care of me I’m hungry I want more Why What did I do I don’t like it here Please Fine then don’t See if I care I’ll never again Oh please won’t you just I
Betrayal
Most of us have an underlying feeling of betrayal. Perhaps you use a different word. This I only just discovered, buried under hurt and anger and frustration. There has been a situation stirring for a year now, nagging at me day and night. It has to do with someone with whom I have little contact,
Taking a Breath
It occurred to me this morning, as I was beginning my meditation, that some of the time the request for a deep breath is denied by the body. There is a tension, a fear, some feeling that is blocking the body’s ability to relax and just breathe. The question is, as a person who meditates,
In Justice
Many of us are suffering what feels like a great injustice in our world. We fight and cry out and complain. We ask over and over, to anyone who will listen. “How could this have happened?!” It doesn’t make any sense. And, yet “it” did indeed happen. The question is, as always, what is my
I Am the One
The human conditions of greed, hate, violence, racism, bigotry, sexism and egotism are in each and every one of us. Our external world is a perfect out-picturing of our internal beliefs, conscious or unconscious. If we, honestly, want peace and harmony, acceptance and tolerance, equality and equanimity, we must begin with ourselves.
Feel What Is There
It is, indeed, a sin to not value yourself. You cannot value yourself while making yourself wrong with every wave of emotion. This is antithetical. To honor yourself means to allow what is in you at the present moment. Do not reject anything that comes.
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Love My Enemies?!?
Love My Enemies – These wise words have been written and spoken, preached and beseeched for centuries. And yet, here we are – the schism only wider. We continue to hurt only because we have been hurt and refuse to feel the pain of this.
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