A note to a friend
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Quick Thoughts, Spirituality, Teacher / Practice | No Comments »This, too, will pass. Markets go up and down, emotions go up and down. But in the center, all is still. It's like the eye of a hurricane. All that power and energy, emanates from stillness. You have that center... and that is your true ...
Why does Spirit want to be embodied?
Sunday, June 1st, 2008 Posted in Movies / TV / Stage, Quick Thoughts, Seen on the Web, Spirituality, Teacher / Practice, Uncategorized | 7 Comments »Here's just two reasons:
Thomas Merton Square
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, Nonduality, Seen on the Web, Teacher / Practice | 2 Comments »The Louisville Metro Council last month named the intersection of 4th and Muhommad Ali Blvd. "Thomas Merton Square," in honor of Fr. Thomas Merton's epiphany. To my knowledge, this is the only occasion of any government recognizing an event related ...
You think that…
Monday, March 10th, 2008 Posted in Mind, Spirituality, Teacher / Practice | 8 Comments »I recently saw a video of Eckhart Tolle teaching at the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland. One of the stories he shared was of another teacher, Byron Katie, who was visiting some patients in a cancer ward. She stopped in a ...
Journaling
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 Posted in My Life, Spirituality, Teacher / Practice | 10 Comments »I've kept a journal at several key times in my life, but never really threw myself into it until 1998, when I read The Artist's Way, by Julia Cameron. If you've never read the book, well, you should. I don't ...
Time for a change!
Sunday, November 11th, 2007 Posted in Mind, My Life, Teacher / Practice | 11 Comments »I fit the stereotype of the computer geek who lives mostly in front of a screen, at work because it's my job, and at home because it's fun. However, this lifestyle has its price... I'm fat, or as the Department ...
An Experiment
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 Posted in Mind, My Life, Spirituality, Teacher / Practice | 11 Comments »"Your life is your practice." The masters all say it. My teacher says it, Socrates said it to Dan in Peaceful Warrior, Tolle teaches it in his books. St. Paul taught the principle (Whatever you do, do as for the ...
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 ...
Meeting a good friend for the first time
Sunday, March 18th, 2007 Posted in My Life, Teacher / Practice | 2 Comments »Just a few years ago, that heading would've been complete nonsense to almost everyone, and it still gets a smile from most people. Yes, there were HAM radio operators who struck up friendships with people they had never met, and ...
