On the Brink of Everything: Hurricanes, Aging, Discovery, and Infinite Life
“Good Teacher, what shall I do so that I may inherit eternal life?” Mark 10:17, New Testament This morning and yesterday I’ve been...
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Healthy Religion: Experiencing the God that Everyone Knows
If your religion requires you to hate someone, you need a new religion . Various attributions Religion and spirituality can impact...
Jul 267 min
Relationships Win, The Golden Rule Still Rules, and Trusting In Our Goodness
These are not new values or ideals. As long as there has been strife and hunger and exploitation and cruelty, there have been...
Jul 2430 min
Kinship: Bridging All the Divides, Tips and Inspiration from My Homie, G-Dog
There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us. Father Gregory Boyle When a system is far from equilibrium small islands of coherence in...
May 145 min
Vulnerability, FEAR, and Sharing Our Common Humanity
“The practice of spirituality is a way of looking at a world where you're not alone.” — Rick Rubin, author of The Creative Act: A Way of...
May 78 min
Self-Transcendence: Flow, Spirituality, Inner Peace, and Doing the Best We Can With What We've Got
“The mystique of rock climbing is climbing; you get to the top of a rock glad it’s over but really wish it would go on forever. The...
Apr 223 min
Earthlings and Godlings?
”When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.” Alan Shepard, Apollo 14 astronaut This morning John and I woke...
Mar 306 min
What's a Symbol of Your Religion?
“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, first black woman in congress A...
Mar 285 min
A Bigger Story than from Dust to Dust? Let's Hear from a Raindrop
So say it loud and let it ring We are all a part of everything The future, present and the past Fly on proud bird You're free at last....
Mar 257 min
Impossibilities
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and...
Feb 136 min
Love Our Enemies: Getting Back On The Horse
If you fall off the horse, get back on (shouted by coaches and murmured by grandparents to keep us trying after failure...when they can't...
Feb 85 min
The Heart of It: Love and Lent, Moral Elevation, and Oxytocin
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation.... Charles Sumner, American statesman Some of you sent me beautiful stories related...
Feb 64 min
What Is The Sound Of Soul Clapping? Could Be Lovely
Goodness is the only investment that never fails. Henry David Thoreau, poet, writer Moments ago, I was chatting via email with my friend,...
Jan 115 min
How About Soul Care?
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the...
Dec 22, 20234 min
Can You See What I See? Questions that Help
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” Michelangelo When John read my last blog, he felt sad. First, for him...
Sep 29, 20236 min
Sensing the Big...Something, A Story
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It will transcend a personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Energy cannot be...
Sep 26, 20234 min
PULSE, Sensing the Sacred, and Connecting to the Cosmic Heartbeat of Compassion
The cultivation of compassion is really a process of recovery – of retrieving an inherent capacity that has become, either in the moment...
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