A samurai chooses to serve a master and does it out of respect and love, not because they are forced. Service to them is not demeaning; service is an expression of their prowess and their...

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.Piet MondrianThe Artist’s Way A Spiritual Path to Greater Creativity by Julia Cameron

You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made.

Why does our world feel so very crazy? Why do mental and emotional illnesses emerge more rapidly than we can educate psychiatrists, psychologists, addiction specialists, and mental health counselors to diagnose and treat them? We...

Have compassion for people as long as you are one of them too.

There is no happiness outside of ourselves.

Be aware of negativity but do not let it take root in the sinews of your creative spirit.

There are times in life when one is in the trough of the wave, and other times when the blessings of the Eternal One wash over us like waves.A Letter to GodPage 85

Being broken open by the storm is your only hope.

You have the heart of a warrior and you were designed to survive!

No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.

Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth.

Folks, it’s time to evolve. That’s why we’re troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything’s failing? It’s because, um – they’re no longer relevant. We’re supposed to keep...

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

The secret of seeing is, then the pearl of great price. If I thought he could teach me to find it and keep it forever I would stagger barefoot across a hundred deserts after any...

Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful...

There are those who say that spiritual enlightenment is achieved through the denial of oneself; you must deny yourself many things, go and live in a mountaintop, never mingle with other people, talk to the...

A gratitude prayer a day keeps stinkin thinkin away!~

Now take all these qualities together: order, balance, evolution and intelligence. What you have is a description of love. It’s not the popular ideal, it is the wizard’s love – the force that upholds life...

Once the wounded child awakens to its human self, a primal scream emerges from the depths of denial like the Kraken released from its underwater prison.

I’m not particularly in favor of doctrine or creed, ordination, the elevation of holy texts, the institution of church, or, for that matter, Christianity. Like most religions, it has irreconcilable shortcomings and an unforgivable history....

He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic.

When we get our spiritual house in order, we’ll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don’t expect...

To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God – maybe even day after day. Maybe he’s too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide...

People debate over whether or not there is a literal Hell, in the literal sense often described as fire and eternal torture, which, to many, seems to be too harsh a punishment. If men really...

One of the biggest challenges for people involved in interfaith dialogue is to break down the stereotypes of the “other” that exist within their own religious traditions and groups. Religious groups need to first acknowledge...

We must empower our weak to be strong, and teach our strong to be compassionate. This will open a door to oneness.

You are either in a state of perfection or a state of learning. Reading is one of the best ways to learn about our lives and purpose!

You will treasure each momentwhen you realizewho is handing it to you.

Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth.

HOPE! Unbreakable, undeniable, irrevocable hope!

Rigid traditions capture soulsprisons of spiritual thoughtman’s religion has captured a god grown too small and very weak.

I had thought so onceThat it was I who saw in your eyesThe raindrops pinging on the windows;Hearing only with earsThe stars and the rain;Now that I truly open my eyes and earsI realize that...

There’s plenty of food, other than non-vegetarian, here, on this earth. So, don’t hurt, kill and eat animals to increase your girth

The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and constantly dangerous, is intoxicating and ultimately toxic. ‘Toxic’ comes from toxicon, Pendell tells us, with a root...

Time is just quantified eternity.

The glass is neither half empty, nor half full. The glass is just a glass and it’s content can perpetually change with your perception.

We have between 60,0and 80,000 thoughts a day. That’s a thought every 1.2 seconds…but we are not our thoughts – we have thoughts. Just like a cell phone is not our texts…it receives texts but...

The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind...

I bought salvation from a man on the street. He said, “Go down to the beach and let the waves wash your feet.

In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. ‘I don’t want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ideas of things are taken for the things themselves. What we barely understand is explained...

We are, all of us, always only one breath or softening of our thought away from an invasion of divine wonder and fresh miracles. Soul waits for any small opening of our hearts to steal...

real.” That is, when we imagine things, we are just making them up. In the spiritual life, though, there are some realities that cannot manifest unless we begin by imagining them.

Sometimes the best answer to a question is another question. Is it not by asking questions that we stimulate each other to reach more deeply into our own source and, thereby, approach the Source, both...

~Remember this always:Your body and mind can be broken, but your Spirit, is unbreakable, and unchangeable~When we talk about people or circumstances breaking our spirit, what we mean is that a person has been affected...

God is light. God is life.

Who are you?

when the need is in the mind, you cannot satisfy the need

Less possessing-less possessed.More possessing-more possessed.More possessed-less accessed.Less possessed-more accessed.

I am intrigued with scriptural mythology that tells us that God created a divine feminine presence to dwell amongst humanity. This concept has had a constant influence on the work. I have imagined her as...