The path to the path is generally as close as we get to the path. The path to the path is everywhere. Anywhere. It is all a matter of keeping our eyes open and walking the path we are on, being alert to the choices we make as the path branches, forks and dead-ends. WhatContinue reading “August 11-C, 2022”
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August 11-B, 2022
Here is a quote from my book, “A Handbook for the Spiritual Journey,” on WordPress: “We can begin anywhere, any time, with anything because everything is equidistant from what is important, and everything will lead us there if we live with our eyes open.” Our eyes aren’t open if we cannot change our mind aboutContinue reading “August 11-B, 2022”
August 11-A, 2022
I have walked through American wonderlands with a camera. I can’t think of a better epitaph. And, since I’m not going to have a tombstone, or be buried, but drift on the wind like the spirit blowing where it will, you can do me the favor of carrying my epitaph with you in my memoryContinue reading “August 11-A, 2022”
August 10-B, 2022
My wife and I are treading boiling water between Scylla and Charybdis amid the heaving waves and clashing rocks of the wine-dark sea, awash as we are in the nightmare of selling/buying houses and moving 18 minutes closer to our children because age is limiting our ability to tend and care for two floors, threeContinue reading “August 10-B, 2022”
August 10-A, 2022
Emptiness, stillness, silence, integrity, sincerity, simplicity, original nature, innate virtues, no judgment, no expectation, no agenda, no plan, no opinion, just seeing, just hearing, just knowing what we know, just sensing what needs to be done, and doing it when it needs to be done, where it needs to be done, how it needs toContinue reading “August 10-A, 2022”
August 09-B, 2022
Wait for the door to open, then walk through. But this is not as passive as it sounds. The Colorado River waited for the Grand Canyon to open for thousands of years, and all that while, it was forcing its way through desert rock. Water waits in a strange way. Be like water in yourContinue reading “August 09-B, 2022”
August 09-A, 2022
We live into who we are. It is easier with support and encouragement, but even without it, there is something in us that craves expression and needs us to champion its cause against all odds. We have to find our voice and sing, or find our rhythm and dance, or find our wings and fly…Continue reading “August 09-A, 2022”
August 08-C, 2022
This is an excerpt from “The Nature of Spiritual Reality I,” from my book, “A Handbook for the Spiritual Journey” on WordPress: All knowing is tentative, conditional, specific to this here and this now, and things are always shifting, changing, calling for something different in the next here and now, or the one after that.Continue reading “August 08-C, 2022”
August 08-B, 2022
We (ideally) bridge the worlds, the physical world of normal, apparent, reality, and the metaphysical (Our term) the world beyond the physical world, which is the world of abnormal, easy to overlook/deny, reality. Our Ego-mind connects us firmly to this world. Our Yogi-mind connects us firmly to the world beyond this world. Yogi-mind can beContinue reading “August 08-B, 2022”
August 08-A, 2022
No highs, no lows. “Hold her steady as she goes.” There are no steady states of being, so we opt for the next best thing, keeping the wobbles within a normal distribution curve. This is the meaning of, “The hills and mountains will be made low, the valleys and the swamps will be lifted up,”Continue reading “August 08-A, 2022”
August 07-C, 2022
Suffering, pain, misery and agony get all the hype. “Oh, the pain, the pain!” “Why the pain?” “Oh, woe, oh, woe!” We go on so over the suffering and the pain, that it is hard to tell where the actual experience of suffering and pain starts and the anticipation/dread of suffering and pain stops. WeContinue reading “August 07-C, 2022”
August 07-B, 2022
Jesus said, “Let your ‘Yes’ be yes, and let your ‘No’ be no.” And he might have added, “And, let your ‘Goodbye’ be goodbye,” because there is no looking back with regret or longing for those whose “Yes” is yes, and whose “No” is no. People who live with authenticity and genuineness, who say whatContinue reading “August 07-B, 2022”
