I’m Noah, and you are the ship coasting along the banks and as long as you are my valentine I will sail between your eyes..

What I aim to do is not so much learn the names of the shreds of creation that flourish in this valley, but to keep myself open to their meanings, which is to try to...

Work, he tells them one night, is a kind of prayer.

Just because something doesn’t go as planned, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth your while. Sometimes you have to fall forward, by learning what doesn’t work, to discover what does. Sometimes you have to get knocked...

The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.

What is a valley of tears? He was scourged, covered with spittle, crowned with thorns, nailed to the cross. From this valley of tears you must ascend. But ascend where? ‘In the beginning was the...

The great fault of modern democracy — a fault that is common to the capitalist and the socialist — is that it accepts economic wealth as the end of society and the standard of personal...

self” physically from the world (as an unseen entity) alienates the human being from the facts of a sensual world and its realities. In order to have a self, you must provide a story for...

Time and again I hear how important the darker environment is to those at our vintage-faith worship gathering. Attenders feel they can freely pray in a corner by themselves without feeling that everyone is staring...

Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called “God.” As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in...

Other people are only aspects of our own greater being.

The more we have outside ourselves the harder it is to get inside ourselves.

The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in...

When religious groups in a conflict eliminate the personal element and perceive themselves as representatives of collectives, heir actions tend to become more “radical” and “merciless.” (Ch.3, by Jaco Cilliers, p. 48)

control” (fueled by fear of loss) fools us into a false sense of security and love. At first glance, it is common to confuse the idea of Conscious Detachment with non-feeling or being cold, however...

Your soul is a precious gift from an imaginative loving Source that endlessly breathes life.

ordinary contemplation,” as the specialists call it—is possible to all men: without it, they are not wholly conscious, nor wholly alive. It is a natural human activity, no more involving the great powers and sublime...

In the search for truth,what you believe matters lessthan how you believe.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own

Was that the best You can do?” This god, to whom I was desperately sending burnt offerings of my own humiliation, couldn’t send an avenging angel or a wise man imparting wisdom? All You can...

The person with a safe center doesn’t fear change. We can choose change without fear before a challenge only when we are strongly centered.

Forms come and go. You, the quantum non-entity behind your human identity, comes nor goes.

My I love you was a measured response, like one gallon of coffee in one cup of sugar. It was just overflowing with an awakening of my soul.

Jesus Christ, it’s like living with Stevie bloody Nicks,’ I said, ‘only without the cocaine, which would be more fun.

Expose your negatives to light, and just like a photo – the picture of your life will develop into something beautiful.

We are the Masters of each moment.

I suspect you’re thinking of Pascal,’ Finkler said, finally.’Only he said the opposite. He said you might as well wager on God because that way, even if He doesn’t exist, you’ve nothing to lose. Whereas...

Our habits are our friends. Even our bad habits.” — Diary of a Country Priest

I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.

Courage is often associated with aggression, but instead should be seen as a willingness to act from the heart.

The LORD GOD is a shelter from the heat.The LORD GOD is a refuge from the storm.

Don’t argue with the person who puts his knowledge above everyone’s else’s; you’ll always lose in that respect. But, in reality, he is the loser because he has put himself in a position where he...

I have come to believe that I am a lesser authority in my own life. I have learned to distrust less-than-rational, nontechnical experiences, my own phenomenal knowledge. Because, to trust the senses – the mortal...

What do you have that the Lord didn’t provide?What do you need that the Lord can’t provide?

Spiritual yearning is the homesickness of the soul.

1. Be Impeccable With Your WordSpeak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction...

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in...

Unforgiveness,splinter in your breastbone, lives there lodged like a small tree.Withers in winter, looms in spring. Its fruit is sweet on first bite, then turns into the taste of your own flesh.

I always felt awkward and unfinished, unworthy of love, suspicious of affection offered. My mother’s absence became a great presence in my life.

Religion is textbook, Spirituality is soul work.

There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It...

Intelligence is a necessity, but when one is without a supernatural sense, intelligence becomes senseless.

For if you do not wish to be ‘just a number’ then do not measure yourself accordingly. Bank statements and scales are instruments employed by society that confine you to a limited summation of yourself...

Time’s up! Tomorrow just arrived.

It is rare to find an established community of Christians that encourages radical expressions of following Jesus. The natural conservatism of institutions is deeply rooted in the desire to survive, and that desire colors and...

Meditation is not difficult in its concept and essence, but it can present challenges for some. One of the most common is in having the discipline required to stick with it and do it every...

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

Listen to what you tell yourself about your life situation. If you find it’s pessimistic or negative, ask yourself, “What’s another way of thinking about this?” or “What do I want to create in my...

We all experience highs and lows in life. If you are feeling down right now, each second that passes is another moment to turn it all around. Feelings, good and bad, always come and go....

Rest is the ultimate humiliation because in order to rest, we must admit we are not necessary, that the world can get along without us, that God’s work does not depend on us.