Are You a Squid or Jellyfish?
Resistance and Surrender in Life and Creativity
“It’s only when there is complete surrender to the now, to what is, that liberation is possible. I do not believe that a (spiritual) practice will take you to complete surrender. (That) usually happens through living. Your very life is the ground where that happens. ……the willingness to let go is surrender. That remains the key. Without that, no amount of practice or even spiritual experiences will... Read More
A Path to Peace
Quietness, stillness at the core…
Still Point of the Center…
Remaining still within always,
Knowing outer flux as Maya
The Dance of Illusions
The Play of Matter
A Matter of Play,
Divine in all ways – and –
Always the Essence is Stillness.
From the Center, from the Core
spin the Universes,
the Dance
the Play.
Enjoy the Dance
the gossamer illusions
the delightful weavings
of form and story
the unceasing Fountain of
darkness and joy.... Read More
My love of our Mother Earth has deep roots. I knew my grandmother only as an old, stern woman. But, long after she passed on, among old family papers, I found a poem she wrote about her love of “The Mountains” (see below.)
Her son, my father, took us camping every summer, as his family did when he was young. He studied the very essence of earth – her blanket of soil that nurtures all life. (He was a soils... Read More
