The Golden Path has been shortened
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, Love, My Life, Spirituality | 7 Comments »Every now and then, I see a message in something objectively ordinary and meaningless, but subjectively a divine message. Today, as I walked away from work to my car, I took a shortcut through a Dillard's store. There, on what ...
Love your neighbor
Friday, February 16th, 2007 Posted in Love, Mind, My Life, Spirituality | 18 Comments »Yesterday at work, I felt love for everyone around me. Friends, strangers, and even those whom I sometime don't get along with so much. It's a wonderful feeling. It was partially a conscious decision—I want to love them. It was also ...
Language Exchange
Monday, February 5th, 2007 Posted in Language, My Life | 2 Comments »Among other sources, I've been learning Spanish from a cool podcast site, called Notes in Spanish. The site's run by a husband and wife team (British husband, Spanish wife) who met as intercambios. The intercambio (exchange) method has apparently become ...
365 days later
Monday, January 22nd, 2007 Posted in Mind, My Life, Nonduality, Spirituality | 8 Comments »It was a year ago that I had that "glimpse" that I posted about as "the suck." I remember it as one of the most significant spiritual experiences of my life—up there with my "born again" experience in my youth, ...
I resolve…
Monday, January 1st, 2007 Posted in Bible / Sacred Texts, Language, Mind, My Life | 13 Comments »Not to assume I know who I am. Yes, there's other things, too, relating to exercise, meditation, etc. All the usual stuff. And, I made the "guilt resolutions" very, very light... There's a reasonable chance I can keep them. But I ...
Favorite Christmas Song
Friday, December 22nd, 2006 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, My Life, Spirituality | 3 Comments »Trev and Darrell have already posted something about their favorite Christmas songs. I'm going to break away from the traditional carols; right now my favorite is Christmas Canon, by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. I heard this as Muzak in a grocery store ...
Blogjam vs. Block
Sunday, November 26th, 2006 Posted in Movies / TV / Stage, My Life, Site log / Geek, Spirituality | 11 Comments »Everyone's familiar with "writer's block," the point where a writer working on a specific project either can't start or can't finish. (The movie Stranger Than Fiction not only gives a great portrayal of the problem, but some wonderful spiritual analogies ...
On the road for a little while
Sunday, November 19th, 2006 Posted in My Life, Spirituality | 2 Comments »Sorry, I'm not going to be able to post next week... I'll be on vacation, visiting my family. I'll start posting regularly again when I get back.
Language, Language!
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 Posted in Language, My Life | 2 Comments »Ever since I was a kid in grade school, playing with simple codes, I've been fascinated by other languages, and the myriad ways that meaning can be wrapped in shells of sound and symbol. In high school I studied ...
I’m back (and panting)!
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006 Posted in My Life, Site log / Geek | 3 Comments »OK, sorry for the obtuse joke in my last post ... it was an "off the top of my head" sort of thing. I knew no one would get it, but I thought it sounded like a koan, so I ...