Passion feeds upon obsessive thoughts and they can take over a person isolating them and drive them to drink and poor decisions. It is a...

Ideally wise advice pays in some way. It should secure a knowing in the advisor as well as the inquisitor; an exchange which enhances...

Healers are usually broken people who discovered a way of being in the world that is contrary to the norm. Wounded healers. Often their...

Music is a language that any being can enjoy and understand. We are moved by music universally. Even without being able to hear, music...

Empowered loving people do empowered loving things to and for each other. That's the way it works. How we do relationships with each...

...This powerful poem reminds me that we can and we must at times say no to the choices of others. We are divine, as is everyone, and...

Memento Mori is a reminder that death is not a fascinating idea with a fearful agenda. Death is a reality and an important part of our...

It is not such a stretch of the imagination to find personal omnipotence in our ability to butter a piece of bread. Consider the...

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...