Seeing Much More of Ourselves
We know very well that we have ancestors. But our ancestors are not only human. We have animal ancestors, we have plant ancestors, and we have mineral ancestors…. We continue to have them within us in the present moment. —Thich Nhat Hanh, How to See Many years ago, I...
What Supports Your Equanimity?
I grew up around horses. Mom wanted to have a horse, so we moved into a horse-friendly North Valley neighborhood of Albuquerque when I was six years old. A corral was constructed in our backyard and a small pasture fenced in so a half-Arab, half-Quarter Horse gelding...
Revisioning Experience in the Spiritual Tricycle
Recently I listened to Richard Rohr talk in a webinar about the three wheels of the spiritual “tricycle”: Experience, Scripture, and Tradition (which he discusses in his book The Universal Christ). He spoke of how, historically, Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches...
Where Do You Place Your Faith?
I was listening recently to a brief video interview of the composer Arvo Pärt. He spoke of how music is an understanding, empathetic friend, forgiving and of comfort. Music offers liberation and flight. He’s woven his life around music until it infuses his very being....
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