Category Archives: 06/25/2020

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

Silence is a lost art and the primary source of realization. Things occur to us out of the silence. We can ponder the solution to a problem for days and take a shower and there it is with a clarity and certainty that leave all questions answered. Or we can wrestle with what to doContinue reading “August 07-A, 2022”

How often, and at what point, does your personal gain factor into your choices and decisions? That is where we step into the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and where we go from there, what we do then, tells the tale. Where we go from there, and what we doContinue reading “August 05-E, 2022”

The following is an excerpt from my book, “A Handbook for the Spiritual Journey,” on WordPress: “Less than 45% of registered voters turn out to vote in most elections. 50% of 45% is only 25% of the voters registered to vote. If you cannot scare 25% of the registered voters into voting for you, youContinue reading “August 05-B, 2022”

Whatever the next thing is that gets you down, tell yourself that Helen Keller had it much worse, and stand up and do what needs to be done. Helen Keller–and Anne Sullivan– are my Go To women of courage and valor. And they are way ahead of any men I can think of. Helen KellerContinue reading “August 04-B, 2022”

We recover our balance and harmony by sitting still in a quiet place and breathing normally while focusing intently on our breathing. Breathe in. Say it mentally as you do. Breathe out. Say it. Pause between breaths for a count of five. Breathe in. Say it. Breathe out. Say it. Count. Do that for threeContinue reading “July 31-A, 2022”