Place of Chains

I am weary of things that bind. Some call them: treasures, responsibilities of life, enjoyments, everyday thoughts and activities of eating & living. O I long to be free again: flying on the wind. Once I was a hawk and another time a dragon. This time, I am a mouse scurrying from room to room: […]

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Tears Along The Way

O my God, what irony it is That we are at the bottom of hell, And yet are afraid of immortality. -Rumi   Introduction Recently I had a conversation with a colleague about why there isn’t much offered in the spiritual literature, by advanced spiritual travelers, concerning their trials, physical aches and pains of being […]

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Gods & God Consciousness

It is said that when you take only one step toward Him/Her, He advances ten steps toward you. But the complete truth is that God is always with you. -Muhammad Q: Is the completed person, one who has achieved God Consciousness, a God? This is what some traditions claim. Can you clarify this point? A: […]

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Part of the Eternal Oneness

In order to create and maintain our body, each person is a killer and destroyer. Daily, consuming thousands of living organisms: fish, plant, vegetables, animals, grains and, in our water, countless microorganisms. So in every act of creation, we are destroying, altering and changing; evolving one form into another. Here in this moment, both actions: […]

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The Capacity For Something

Grasshopper reached the end of his rope.  Everything he tried to do came-up empty.  He tried a business of his own selling meadow grass tea and not one package was sold.  All the other hoppers claimed, they could pick their own grass; all grasshopper did was put a rubber band around a clump of grass. […]

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Spirituality & Social Change

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.  -Kahlil Gibran   Looking Back As I sit around watching my grey hair turn whiter, I keep seeing the same social and political problems occurring worldwide that I saw back […]

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Story- The Theologian

There is a much repeated story, with different versions, about a Servant of God and how he set aside traditional religious training to follow his mystical teacher and reach spiritual completion.  And by under taking this journey, the world benefited. One day, a Doctor of Theology was seated beside a water fountain, outside the university […]

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Story- The Prince

In an age long ago, there lived a handsome Prince who was beloved for his joy, kindness and generosity of spirit.  The Prince’s father, the King, recognized that his son was very special and did not want him embittered and tarnished by the world.  So, the King built a high wall around the palace and […]

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The Golden Caress

Hesitantly the Traveler told the Blindman about his dream. “Last night as I slept I was uncertain if I was awake or asleep? I found myself in a Throne Room that was arrayed in Sparkling White Light. I found myself kneeling before a person or Being that I did not know, but felt very comfortable […]

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Meeting At Journey’s End

Now I do understand it. I will tell you what it is: Does this path have a heart?  All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. They are paths going through the bush, or into the bush. In my own life I could say I have traveled long, long paths, but I am not anywhere.  […]

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Poems: Starfish Lives & Inner War

Starfish Lives   A brown hair boy Searching for starfish by the ocean. Keeping all he finds Wanting to possess beauty.   Placed in a pail The starfish lives Evaporated with the sea water.   A grown man remembers And will not contain Another living thing. -SB       Inner War   The hardest […]

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