Thought Trains

After an extended, six-month retreat last year, my inner scale tipped. The scale I refer to is the one that tetter totters between the true essence of pure awareness and my personal self.
I recognize that any sense of a separate self, the one with problems, issues, goals and dreams has to be constructed and [...]

The Art of Not Doing

This holiday week, I want to present an idea that might easily be labeled as a sacrilege in this society. Ours is a culture of doing, even at an increasingly frenetic pace. It’s a common view that if we’re not doing something, we’re failing or lagging somehow. Everything in our world is about growing, progress, [...]

Spiritual Growth is not a Project

All our lives, we’ve been taught what we must do to be successful. Many of these things we’ve learned have helped us get what we want. When it comes to spiritual growth, I see many people trying to apply the same principles. Perhaps they are encouraged by the plentiful purveyors of spiritual products using the [...]