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Dec 9, 20248 min read
Turn Inner Chaos Into An (Advent) Adventure Toward Hope, Peace, Joy and Love, Using Self-Compassion
“A moment of self-compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments can change the course of your life.” - Dr. Christopher...
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Oct 15, 20247 min read
Don't Waste Your Suffering; Wind the Wound Around
"The wound is the place where the light enters you." Rumi, poet Some years ago, my brother, Steve, shot himself. Steve never recovered...
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Oct 8, 20246 min read
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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Oct 5, 20245 min read
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...
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Jul 26, 20247 min read
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...
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Jul 24, 202430 min read
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...
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May 14, 20245 min read
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...
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May 7, 20248 min read
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...
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Apr 22, 20243 min read
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...
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Mar 30, 20246 min read
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...
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Mar 28, 20245 min read
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....
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Mar 25, 20247 min read
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...
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Feb 13, 20246 min read
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...
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Feb 8, 20245 min read
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...
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Feb 6, 20244 min read
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,...
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Jan 11, 20245 min read
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...
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Dec 22, 20234 min read
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...
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Sep 29, 20236 min read
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...
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Sep 26, 20234 min read
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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