Tell you what I’m going to do … I’m going to go ahead and give you the answer to this riddle (a riddle, by the way, that the average 8 year old can solve in well under thirty seconds) … The answer is 87. Can you figure out why? HINT: Just like with anything else […]
“Layers of insulation keep the rich and the poor from truly encountering one another. There are the obvious layers like picket fences & SUVs, and there are the more subtle ones like charity … It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a mission project, but become genuine friends and […]
How odd it was sitting in a German restaurant last night watching the USA play Germany in the World Cup; and how odd it was for the Germans sitting near me to hear me, a born American, applauding & cheering the success of THEIR team … How odd it is that we draw lines on […]
“It’s just like the Present [Moment] to be showing up like this.” ~ Bon Iver . “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” ~ Arundhati Roy . Indeed, this “other world” comes completely into being during every one of our acts of […]
It may be important to leaders & pundits & scientists & other “great thinkers” to examine the world … to dissect it & explain it & analyze it – to at times cherish it, and at other times to despise it. And yet in actuality it is only important that we care for the world; […]
When your life’s next Great Storm begins to rage & bluster, know that there are two methods of approach that can bring Peace — either flow around it and onward to horizons other; … or remain steadfast, raise your hands to the heavens, and let the wind & rain cleanse the dust from your Soul.
“I truly believe that when the poor finally meet the rich, riches will have no more meaning, and that when the rich finally meet the poor, we will see poverty come to an end … True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces […]
When we are born God gives each of us seven boxes of Truth … and six keys. The first box contains Success … and its key is perseverance. The second box contains Justice … and and its key is patience. The third box contains Beauty … and its key is humility. The fourth box contains […]
“It is impossible to “love” anyone or anything completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.” ~ Paul Valéry And where do we arrive once that glorious Path is trod? Right where we started our Journey — where we then See it all again from Love’s perfect perspective. We truly have nowhere […]
Every single human being is a part of a single, massive entirety — a single “everything — what some call “the Universe”. And even though this Universe is by its very nature without limitation of time or space, each one of us IS limited — by the relatively short length of our physical lives, by […]
He who merely desires to do Good knocks gently on the gate; She who has chosen to truly Care finds the gate already open … (inspired by Rabindranath Tagore)
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