To create anything on earth, effort is needed. Friction is required to light the spark that creates fire, risks must be taken to build relationships and commitment requires our dedication even when inconvenient. Even actions as simple as saying “hello” to someone on the street...
I had an image come to me the other day as I was preparing to write this article, it was of a boat wizzing along the surface of the sea, moving so fast you couldn’t see what was in the water. When the boat stopped,...
What does it mean to live grounded upon the earth, to place our feet down and feel the ground light up under our weight? To be fully here, in the now and taste the world around us? To be so connected our inner compass that...
When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it's over, I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don't want to...
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. -Ralph Waldo Emerson How was May? Did you get a chance to listen in? And if so, what did you do with what you hear? Did you dismiss...
The Sufi Teacher Hazrat Inayat Khan writes in his book The Inner life “In order to get the right disciples and the right people to come to him, a Sufi who lived in Hyderabad made a wonderful arrangement. He got a grumpy woman to sit...
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make...
Between stimulus and response, there is space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. -Victor E. Frankle Right now in my home Vancouver Canada, my yard is covered in melting snow, I can see the...
Once I said to God, “How do you teach us?” And he replied, “If you were playing chess with someone who Had infinite power and infinite knowledge And wanted to make you a Master of the game, Where would all the chess pieces be at every moment? Indeed, not only where...
Trusting, untrusting, we lowered ourselves into this, let ourselves downward hand over hand as on a rope that quivered over the unsearched…. We did this. Conceived of each other, conceived each other in a darkness which I remember as drenched in light. I want to call this, life. ― Adrienne Rich, The...