If you are going to try and drag me down into the depths of the cheap excuses you give for your bigotries, or the feeble rationalizations you offer for your acts of violence, or the hollow justifications you proffer for your vapid selfishness — the brittle reasons you give for replacing real Goodness with personal […]
“Any awakening which does not inspire the sleeper to Love has roused him in vain.” ~ inspired by Jessamyn West In order to truly Wake UP, we have to have the courage to not only open our eyes, but also to get out of bed … to not only get out of bed, but to […]
“From the quark to the supernova the wonders around us do not cease. It is our attentiveness that is in short supply; our ability and willingness to do the work that awe requires.” ~ John Green So do the Work, my Friends … Pause for a moment right now and look closer … Gaze deep […]
Here is some of the “survival” advice I recently gave to a Friend walking as a mendicant from Tennessee to New York: 1) Sustenance: Avoid worrying about this one … Even in the most arid of climates, where there are people, there is food — and that food is abundant. In addition, I have found […]
“Don’t do things like wear smelly, green sneakers. You might get attention, but attention ain’t the same thing as Love.” ~ Alonzo (age 9) LOVE doesn’t desire attention … Love gently ATTENDS.
There’s so much Wisdom to be gleaned from children’s books, and one of my all-time favorites contains the adventures of Winnie the Pooh. Ok, most of the characters therein have pretty big hang-ups — most of them are pretty “dysfunctional”. And yet through it all there is Pooh, gentle and considerate and Caring. And maybe […]
When we talk about falling in Love, we often say “It’s crazy’ … But don’t you see, it IS crazy — crazy in the sense that “falling in love” has absolutely nothing to do with LOVE at all. And the give-away is the word “falling” … Even though Love is the most majestic of choices […]
There is a great book called “The Three Questions” by Jon J. Muth. It’s technically a “children’s book”, and yet could just as easily occupy a space on every adult’s nightstand. In short, Muth (who is essentially putting Tolstoy’s work of the same name into parable form for kids) notes that the “Right thing to […]
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