Love is service … (07/16/11)

“Never play hide-and-go-seek with your Destiny … You’ll always lose.” ~ Peace Artist . “While God waits for His temple to be built of Love, men bring stones.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore . “All the places where you’re shattered can now reflect light and color where there was none. Now is the time to become something […]

Life before death … (07/15/12)

The important question is not whether life exists after death. The only consideration of any real consequence … … is whether you choose to LIVE before you die. (inspired by Osho)

Loving is reckless … (07/15/11)

“You never lose by Loving. You always lose by holding back.” ~ Barbara de Angelis . “Take away Love and our Earth is a tomb.” ~ Robert Browning . “Regarding Love, our task today is courageous recklessness.” ~ inspired by Kaj Munk

our Drug addiction … (07/14/13)

“People use drugs, both legal and illegal, because their lives are either intolerably painful or overbearingly dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and don’t know their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, honored, and occasional, […]

of roses & thorns … (07/14/12)

Some folks complain that roses have thorns; others are thankful that life’s thorns have roses* … I, in the other Heart, follow the “narrow path”; I SEE the two as one … … the prick of the thorn giving their petals a deeper magnificence; the courage of that embrace carrying me past the pain. LOVE […]

for Community, today is the day … (07/14/13)

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.” ~ Chinese Proverb Just because we should have have woken up to Community-building along time ago, doesn’t mean we can’t start rebuilding our Communities today. Today is the day … Go get to it. “No kind action ever […]

Returning HOME … (07/14/15)

Left as it is, this quote quietly hints at the way to a Great Truth … And yet by changing just one word — by simply changing “breath” into “deed”, it illuminates that Way fully … and allows us to return Home.

Fear is the mind-killer … (07/14/11)

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will […]

Love for one allows Love for all … (07/13/11)

“Through my Love for you, I want to express my Love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to Love everyone and all species. If I succeed in Loving you, I will be able to Love everyone and all species on Earth… This […]

So Amazing … (07/11/14)

We humans are so AMAZING … not a collection of different individuals or warring tribes or varied cultures or conflicting beliefs or distinctive nations. Nope … We are all drawn from the same slate; all molded from the same clay. We are homosapiens … and we are one large, beautiful, amazing Family. Indeed, we are […]

Reaching for the Light … (07/12/14)

“Some make it their mission to try and hurt others. These are the Shadow-People — soaked in the sludge of childhood traumas, adolescent codependencies and adult aggressions. They seem to know only one way out of their inner Darkness — and that way is violence; violence against their “enemies”, by attacking them in “self-defense” … […]