Apr 25 2025
simple answers
Don’t ask questions
with simple answers.
Ask the questions
that bring you face-to-face with the Mystery.
Apr 25 2025
Don’t ask questions
with simple answers.
Ask the questions
that bring you face-to-face with the Mystery.
Apr 04 2025
When you know where the Beloved lives,
you are content,
no need to argue with others over street names.
Feb 14 2025
Each one of us does not exist
except as an empty field
in which God meets God.
We are the flash of self-recognition
that lights the face of the Divine.
Feb 07 2025
There is an inner perfection
the same for everyone.
The psyche may go through the motions,
but its journey is done.
Jan 17 2025
Love and compassion are effortless.
The soul is exhausted by the effort
to stop this natural outpouring
of the living heart.
Jan 03 2025
We don’t float to heaven.
Like a tree, we sink roots deep into the rocky soil,
and so, year-by-year, reach higher into the heavens.
Dec 20 2024
The Divine is experienced by the heart.
The intellect, at best, can only trail behind
and take notes.
Nov 25 2024
Religion that does not inspire
outward compassion and inward awakening
is not religion.
Nov 15 2024
All objects, all people
that tug at your desire:
unzip them.
See what tumbles out.
Oct 25 2024
To a materialist,
appearance is reality.
To a mystic
appearance is an expression of reality
–which can reveal, but also deceive,
and always holds secrets.
Oct 19 2024
The map of the human soul
is a topographical map, with mountains
and valleys, and rivers of life everywhere.