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Curiosity
I am curious. I have a feeling we were all born to be curious, but we lose our curiosity when it looks like we’ve accumulated all the knowledge we will ever really need. That usually happens within our first four years of life. I still have a little curiosity left, I guess, but it has [...]
[Click to Continue →]Resolution
Early in January a few years ago, someone asked me if I’d made any New Year’s resolutions. It had been a long time since I’d heard that kind of question, so I suppose I didn’t hear the unspoken invitation to look back on my past and to judge myself. I answered quickly and cheerfully. ‘No, [...]
[Click to Continue →]The Nativity
The Nativity As with all stories that arise from the wellspring of human imagination, the Nativity tells the story of us. We are storytellers, of course, but we are also the Only Story we know how to tell. From fairy tale to sacred scripture, from gossip to timeless mythology, we have always been describing ourselves. [...]
[Click to Continue →]The Hero You Are
The Hero You Are If I asked you to sit down with me and make up a fairy tale, using your imagination to create a colorful and compelling story, you and I would have so much fun. You would have fun in the act of creating; I would have fun just listening and allowing myself [...]
[Click to Continue →]Assemblage Point
In various traditions associated with the Toltec, there is often a reference made to what is called your assemblage point. Like many terms encountered in spiritual teachings, it is given the power to mystify and misdirect. Like all symbols that are used in ordinary communication, its power is determined by the one who uses it. [...]
[Click to Continue →]Grace
Maybe you can already see how knowledge insinuates itself in all ways, through all thought – including your spiritual process. You try to think yourself into higher consciousness. You use mental strategies in order to make yourself appear more authentic. You use word to calm the mind of its war of words. You try not [...]
[Click to Continue →]Dry Dirt and Daffodils
Once upon a time in a land not so different from our own, there lived a man. He awoke one day, groggy from a long sleep, and found himself alone in a house filled with clutter. Worse, his head was filled with thoughts that pained him and would not give him peace. He was sorely [...]
[Click to Continue →]Honesty
In the process of every inspirational journey, certain words take on a tremendous importance – words like bliss, transcendence and ecstasy, for instance. It’s as if we were trying to reach the advanced levels of a video game – let’s call it the game of Enlightenment – by our most noteworthy moments of inarticulate mindlessness. [...]
[Click to Continue →]Never Gonna Let You Go
Romances seem destined to end – tragically or not. It seems that way, but romance can last as long as we do. It is our symbol to command. Our bodies will support the trauma of broken beliefs – and just about everyone has felt the acute pain that happens as a result. But, looking back [...]
[Click to Continue →]Superstition
Superstition describes the power we give to certain beliefs. In giving power to a belief, you agree that it has control over your thinking and behavior. In giving power to a belief, you naturally surrender your own. And yes, fear and ignorance are at the heart of it. Perhaps you feel you’ve made peace with [...]
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