“I Have Time”

Hurrying speeds us away from the present moment, expressing a wish to be in the future because we think we’re going to be late. To…

“Accept It Like Your Skin!”

Gurdjieff delivered this powerful message to an old soldier, a man who had lived with guilt and remorse all his adult life. In the first…

Will We Ever Get It Straight?

I doubt it!  So maybe it’s time to celebrate crooked things. How often have we strayed from our intention out of curiosity or stupor or…

Surprised by Love

The things I love are important, no matter how inconsequential they may appear to the rational mind. Whether it be a flower, a silken skirt…

Almost Human?

Is it my job to spend the days of my life working to somehow become divine, or should I spend my precious energy in an…

The Great wave, Part One

“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf.” Jon Kabat-Zinn A few years ago I traveled to Costa Rica with my…

Accentuating the Positive

Each of us is born with a furnace of creative energy inside that gradually dissipates over a lifetime. Artists tap into it, but many of…

Why do I Move Before I Am?

Dedicated to the work of qigong master Robert Peng That’s what I asked myself this morning as I stood looking at the rice spilled all…

Staying in Front of the Lack

    “Sometimes I go about pitying myself while all the time I am being carried on great wings across the sky.”  Ojibwa song Do…