Our Common Ache
As I hike along a beloved trail, I am serenaded by the sound of crickets celebrating it seems, in the warmth of the autumn sunshine. Somewhere, a woodpecker is knocking on a tree, while underneath my feet a golden carpet is being laid down from the cascade of leaves...
Eternal Remembrance Comes Silently
I am watching a gentle rain as it softly waters the expanse of trees in the valley laid out below me. I am so blessed to sit up here at my bedroom window and see this view every, single day.It changes subtly year after year with the familiar coming and going of the...
The Hidden Gift
Award winning Canadian Ojibway author, Richard Wagamese, tells a wonderful tale in his book, For Joshua, about the the arrival of man upon Mother Earth. He talks about the Creator gathering together all the Animal People and speaking these words: "I am sending 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...