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Stardust & Poppies – A Little Perspective
Sometimes I love to freak myself out by looking at NASA photos of the earth in relation to infinity. Well, at least the amount of infinity a super-powered NASA camera can capture... It can really mess with your head, but if you are someone like me, who is on a...
Nectar of the Gods – Good Medicine
What is it about beauty that can often leave us speechless and still? The kind of still that awe and reverence have a way of bestowing upon us. The kind of still that empties us of everything except the silent calm of the soul. For the past ten years I have lived...
The Language of Peace – Bowing Deeply
As I write this I am looking out across the expanse of 1200 hectares of the most fresh, spring green urban wilderness. This is the back-yard that I share with countless other people and creatures in the area. The temperature is climbing to 30C at midday, more the...
Pointing The Compass Home – A Return to Safety
As I write these words, I am watching the sun descend behind the hills for yet another day. Darkness will soon cast its evening blanket of shadows over the valley and trees, and if I'm really lucky, I'll get to gaze up at an infinite sky sparkling with the light of...
How To Feel Rich And Real – The New R & R of Our Times
It's a rather volatile time on the planet right now. Is there anyone who is not feeling this energy? It's manifesting as feelings of extreme hyperactivity in the mind which may be producing quite the roller coaster of emotions. With the sudden death of Prince and so...
How To Live The Life You Love – Begin Now
One of my favorite thoughts that I have permanently downloaded into the computer that's called my mind is, "we create our own joy." Doesn't thinking this thought make you feel good? It does me, and I am forever reminding myself of this whenever I find I'm in a...
What Remains
Early morning unfolds. The sun rises, a crow caws, a breeze moves, a seagull soars, a deer grazes, the heart beats, the lungs breathe, the body stretches, coffee steams, tongue tastes, cat purrs. Love Is. The greatest blessing of being alive, is being awareness...
Written Upon Your Heart
Written upon the heart of every human being is the exquisite grace and power to Love. Deaf, blind, mute, sick, healthy, rich, poor, black, white, young, old, male, female, friend, enemy...none of this changes our fundamental commonness. We have all been gifted with a...
Learn to Live Loved
Learn to live loved. How many of us actually feel this way? I mean really, really consistently loved. I'm not talking about feeling loved by your spouse, kids, friends, or parents. I'm talking about feeling deeply loved from the inside out by Existence itself....
A Song of Love
I've been waking up in the dark stillness of early morning these past few weeks to the most beautiful sound of a lone robin singing her song. It echoes in surround sound throughout the valley where I live, and her joyful vibrations stream in through the open...
Unalterable Peace
So many people are wondering whether it's possible to find peace these days, when every newspaper, TV news channel, internet media etc, is crammed full of the latest horror stories. Even if you are one who avoids all media, your chatty neighbour or co-worker will...
Against the Backdrop of Love
Against the backdrop of eternal love and pure awareness, our lives play out. Most of us never stop long enough to contemplate this truth because we believe so strongly in our identity as a person with a body and a mind. And even if we come to some sort of...
Dust In The Wind
To be in natural harmony with all that is, is to let go of the "personal" mind we tend to cling to so tightly...our personal identity. In our original state, we are this natural harmony. It is a silent sort of grace. It permeates everything. We Are a Point of...
Sweet Grace
We think we are here to taste the experience of life...the contrast...the duality. And on some level, this is true, but only up to a certain point. Our real purpose for being here is to discover the truth of who we are, and if it is freedom that we want more than...
Pure Essence
As presumptuous as it feels to me to even attempt to use words to express the inexpressible, something is quietly urging me to give it a go. That "something' is pure Essence. The pure Essence of our Being, at least in my experience, is not something that can be...
Benevolent Beauty
As I write this, the day-long cloud cover is breaking up, and the sun is peeking through in radiant bursts of joyful light. The expanse of trees I can see before me from my window are seemingly coming back to life, new leaves unfurling in a splash of vibrant green...
Limitless Living
As I write this, I am drinking in the gorgeous, sweet fragrance of the Easter Lily sitting in front of me on the coffee table. Beside it is a crystal brandy snifter filled with colorful foil wrapped, dark chocolate Easter eggs from a local chocolatier in town. ...
Eat. Pray. Love. (and Divine Grace)
Yesterday my heart cried. I've cried waterfalls of tears in my life for a slew of reasons. Sometimes in sorrow, sometimes in joy, sometimes with compassion, sometimes in pure relief, and sometimes I've simply been overcome with incredible beauty. I can usually...