true Transcendence … (03/10/13)
It is indeed important to awaken to the Truth that every one of life’s challenges & every one of its difficulties is a teacher, AND YET, this wisdom fails to mention the most important Truth of all: that our ultimate Happiness rests not in seeing our trials & tragedies as lessons, but rather in USING […]
being yourSelf … (03/10/11)
“Some people expend a tremendous amount of energy merely to be normal.” ~ Albert Camus . “Let the Beauty we love be what we Do. There are thousands of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” ~ Rumi (via Coleman Barks) . “You cannot leap a twenty foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.” ~ unknown
A Final Fare-well revisited … (03/10/12)
“A FINAL FARE-WELL” Back in the very early part of 2010, as I was preparing to walk my 1000+ km Peace Pilgrimage to Pompano Beach, I sent quite a few folks a copy of a CD that I had arranged. I figured if “something happened to me” along the way, I wanted folks to have […]
A fan of Humanity … (03/10/16)
While I am NOT a big fan of the Koran (I’m almost finished reading the whole thing, and it IS quite the disturbing read — championing a disturbingly similar level of exclusivist immorality & dysfunctional manipulation as that found in the Bible’s Old Testament and its concluding Revelation), I AM a fan of humanity — […]
Is there an afterlife? … (03/09/08)
I don’t know if these words will provide you with any consolation (as my experience has shown that only our selflessly caring actions can do so), and yet I offer them to you nonetheless … As far as my feelings about the afterlife are concerned, it is most important to preface my thoughts by stating […]
The Art of Juggling … (03/09/11)
It seems like there is just too much to do. I find myself juggling so many tasks — tasks that are all designed to help others in some way — tasks that I feel are all Important to “get done”. Well, I stopped long enough today to realize that you probably know exactly what I […]
how to be Humble as a Child … (03/09/12)
“Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.” ~ Serbian proverb Such a misconstrued concept, humility … We have been taught that humility is subservience, or grovelling, or weakness, or obedience, or even low self-esteem. In Reality, humility is the opposite … Humility is the ultimate Strength […]
Always time to Dance … (03/09/17)
“To live means to be creative, and to be creative means to be in love with life. You can be this kind of creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance the Beauty of something nearby; you want to bring a little more music to a relationship, a little more poetry […]
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