Never underestimate the power of friendship
Monday, April 30th, 2007 Posted in Love, Spirituality | 3 Comments »Cho Seung-Hui had no friends. One friend, and the Blacksburg massacre would probably never have happened. It would take a strong friend to love a soul that troubled. It takes strength to throw the demons off of someone's back. But that's ...
Bold Kindness Thwarts Bank Robberies
Friday, April 13th, 2007 Posted in Love, Peace and Justice, Spirituality | 2 Comments »You got to listen to this! NPR interviews FBI special agent Larry Carr about "SafeCatch," a program that may already have reduced the number of bank robberies by nearly half. The secret? Smother them with attention and helpfulness. The Dharma / ...
Snapshots
Monday, April 2nd, 2007 Posted in Language, Movies / TV / Stage, My Life, Spirituality | 6 Comments »Just some quick notes on what's going on now: Peaceful Warrior was great. My teacher's Zen and martial classes saw it together on Sunday. Everyone loved it. The audience as a whole seemed very appreciative. Hopefully, it will stay in theaters ...
See Peaceful Warrior Free
Friday, March 30th, 2007 Posted in Movies / TV / Stage, Spirituality, Teacher / Practice | 8 Comments »Anyone who knows me well knows that in my opinion, far and away the best movie of 2006 was Peaceful Warrior, based on Dan Millman's beloved autobiographical novel Way of the Peaceful Warrior, which has been a portal to the ...
The Swimming Pool
Saturday, March 24th, 2007 Posted in Love, Spirituality, Teacher / Practice | 3 Comments »In January, 2006, I had an experience that I sometimes think of as "the empty holodeck." It was jolting and mildly disorienting, but I consider it one of the most important spiritual experiences of my life. This last January, I ...
Punctuate this.
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, Spirituality | 9 Comments »Add the missing punctuation to Jesus' saying: take heed that no one deceives you for many shall come in my name saying I am the Christ and will deceive many If you're like most people familiar with the verse, you probably punctuated ...
Steve Pavlina on the Law of Attraction
Thursday, March 8th, 2007 Posted in Mind, Nonduality, Spirituality | 6 Comments »The "Law of Attraction" is definitely buzzing around the memosphere now. The movie and book The Secret deal with the idea, although rather superficially, almost conveying the idea of magical wish fulfullment. That approach has been roundly and properly criticized, ...
The Sweet Pain
Monday, March 5th, 2007 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, My Life, Poetry, Spirituality | 2 Comments »In 1998, I began writing a long poem, an epic poem, on the life of Christ. After about six weeks, I stopped writing it (though it didn't leave me). What I was unprepared for was the intensity of his Presence ...
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 ...