Photo Alan Breaky For it is in giving that we receive. ~ Saint Francis of Assisi Time does not exist; clocks exist. Our galactic universe, of incomprehensible enormity with distances measured in light years; where our cosmic home, planet earth, is a relative speck of dust; leads me to ponder... Might our brief human [...]

“I’m an old man now. I’ve lived a long and difficult life filled with so many misfortunes, most of which never happened.” ~ Mark Twain Tears flow effortlessly these days; drops of what ifs and beleaguered whys saturate a disconsolate heart. It’s always dusk, pining for the lazy moon, afraid to sleep, mourning in [...]

  "Be Yourself, everyone else is taken" ~ Charles Schulz ...and who exactly is that? Who slumbers so soundly within the depths beneath the meniscus of your narrative? Believe the questions, question your answers, peel back those layers, go for the heart. Distill your narrative to energy. Get beyond the thoughts, the stories... there [...]

“Let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure, and seek the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless. Say not I have found the truth, but rather, I have met the soul walking along my path, for the soul walks along all [...]

“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Running through our songs of rain with fears that we might melt, camouflaged emotions, shadows that we’ve felt. Distant thunder on the heels of lightning’s lethal dart piercing through these walls of pain [...]

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering” ~ Ben Okri Dormant in perfection sleep the flawed and mottled seeds of failure, loss and defeat, fertilized by illusion and fervent denial. A dualistic mindscape of pass [...]

"The most valuable form of service is to fully awaken to who you are, and then live that awakening in every moment." ~ Adyashanti When life disintegrates before my unbelieving eyes, when viable options dry up in a sizzle, like orphaned renegade raindrops on a defiant sweltering summer sidewalk, I find resolve among the [...]

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude" ~ Denis Waitley In a world of black and white infused with spellbinding, exhilarating, yet intangible rainbows of yearning, intellectualized needing, ego’s covetous must haves; spurs delusional bursts of misspent [...]