Who can hear the Buddha sing If that dog between your legs is barking? Hafiz here seems to be reflecting upon his role as a teacher. He...

From a creative thought to a creative thing...it takes time and we must linger with our ideas to value them. It is the process that...

All kinds of spiritual practices suggest a person get to know themselves in a new way. Perhaps a vision quest or learning to pray or a...

If you look at what is behind the pressure to obliterate diversity and inclusion, you will find only fear...miles and miles...eons and...

Humans need to communicate and we found a way thousands of years ago to do that through a long series of evolutionary stages. Language is...

We are human. We are curious beasts whether we want to own it or not. We wonder. ...God has sent out ten thousand messengers Announcing a...

We are worthy of asking a direct question and receiving a direct answer. If we keep asking the same questions and just get crickets,...

This poem struck home deeply within me as a woman in a world inclined to devaluing my presence. There is a millennia of investment in...

I am full of love tonight Come look into my eyes, and lets go off Sailing, my dear, on a long ocean ride... It is important to not allow...

Shame. We all carry it. All of us. Though we may dress it up with self deprecation or layer a bravado to circumnavigate how it feels, it...

Passion for satisfaction generally begins and ends at the threshold of the carnal. Hafiz suggests that our enthusiasm needs to embrace...

In the height of irony, independence is not maintained without everyone's investment in equality, liberty and justice. We make choices...

Blah, blah, blah....sometimes I get tired of words and what I really want is to feel struck dumb with the sincere tenderness of love and...

We are all dependent upon something. We are like the earth dependent upon the sun as a source. We depend on so much from this benevolent...

Being able to identify integrity and courage is a skill well forged and useful in times when decisions need to be made. A hard and...

Lessons must age and ripen and ripening takes time. Certain elements need to be in play for an experience to be assimilated. It is not...

True love is not for the faint of heart, as love, for some is discovered as a sacred thing and a certain resilience must be hard wired...

It is hard to tell sometimes if that which has crossed our path is here to help us or to complicate our already unstable situation. Here...

Sometimes we are ill advised in love. Depending on how we define love, we may walk a path that we have inherited or a way that has been...

To lose track of the thrill of beginning to learn something new in a life is the beginning of losing the spirit that fuels our inner joy....