It has been my experience that when I am not caring, grounded and present, I often miss opportunities to help others. Kindness is much...

This is, I believe, the longest poem in the book, The Gift . I don't know. I'm reading the book as I record it. It is long, epic and...

This poem makes me reflect upon the mind as a terrorist. Picture this: everyone and everything is in the flow and all is breathing of...

Our lives are finite and if we are fortunate we can notice and be wowed by how spectacular our being alive actually is. Realizing how...

At some point we meet ourselves walking along in our lives and, if we are inclined, we allow ourselves or surrender to the invitation to...

Going berserk is considered an unhinged behavior as observed by the civilized. A mind winding its body up too tight will spring...

Being a human being can often feel like a madness sanctioned by the decisions made by others and we feel we must endure this imposition ...

Left to our own devices, we do not often seek out resistance or friction but without it, we can fall into indifference when is no...

An invisable wake was created When God said to His beautiful dead lover, "Be".... Everyday we wake up and effect the world. It is...

I sense that a heightened level of anxiety and fear in our lives has ratcheted up of late. With all that we have been through with...

We rarely remember ourselves without our costume of the human body and we are woefully deprived because of this amnesia. We can become...

There are a lot of ways to devalue a priceless experience and some of the most common are criticizing, identifying, controlling and...

Life beyond words. This earth is so stunning. I mean it is really breathtaking! I think it has become even more obvious (at least in MY...

Life often seems cruel. It feels that way. How do we weather this? Here we are schlepping through our days sometimes dancing and singing...

We die as we have lived. If we are fortunate, we have death to teach us about our investment in our lives. It was death that helped me...

I sometimes feel that the difference between a conscious life and and unconscious one is simply a matter of willing intention. I have...

We cannot alone see who we really are. This is in part because we are not able to see who we really are nor can others. We see what we...

What is more sovereign and alone than god? Hold my space. Thank you for listening. The original post in this series of poems by Hafiz...

Sometimes silence and a full stop is the only accurate expression for a shock in our lives. Hafiz waxes poetic describing a mime...

I wonder sometimes just how much of a chip off the ol' block of god/star dust/ all that its/ we actually are. How is it that I can sit...