Our life’s quest/ journey is to re-discover our true identity. It is not a narcissistic search for an egoic identity that supplies us with everything we think we want – for that is not eternal – but it is the search for the identity sung by the soul, which is eternal. Read more
It was a work of art – but it wasn’t meant for display. In fact, it was specifically crafted not to show. And that was a pity, in many ways, for it deserved to be seen. . . Read more
The willingness to encounter the Other, to step into solidarity with the Other, is the ultimate prophetic act because it most directly challenges the status quo, which seems so easily to ossify into a separation between the privileged and the marginalized. Read more
Every young mother thinks that her first-born infant is divine; that there has never been another like him. And she’s right on both counts. Every child is a Word-of-God-made-flesh just as surely as Christianity claims that Jesus was. . . Read more
Even though the promise of the Divine Feminine is reflected to us moment by moment in the extraordinary beauty and complexity of Nature, the cosmos and our Mother Gaia, it is largely undervalued or taken for granted in the workings of our world. We see it, but we don’t "see" it. Read more
Do you ever wonder how the tradition of hugging to express affection got started? Are the positive feelings associated with a hug to some degree a learned, enculturated response, or are they purely natural? As it turns out, there is some science behind this! Read more
Midlife crises seemed to happen earlier in the human life cycle, if you go back a couple of millennia. Gautama Siddharta, John the Baptist and Jesus all encountered it in their late 20’s. Sheltered childhoods erupted into passionate and turbulent public ministries. . . Read more
We can careen through the natural world by automobile or aircraft, recline leisurely before a digital news broadcast, pity the plight of different-looking people on the other side of the city or world, and continue merely to exist, comfortably. Read more
You only exist to the extent that you love; but, this is not a binary operation - you either exist or you don’t - rather it lies on a spectrum. You exist only to the extent that you love and you do not exist to the extent that you do not love. You’re real only if you love and you’re real only to the extent that you love. Read more
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