From Suffering to Surrendering; Finding Grace as We Approach Passover and Easter Dear Friends, Joy and peace for a blessed Passover and renewing Easter! Israel is calling – I am going to be with my son for the next few weeks. I promise that I will be bringing each of you with me in my heart! So you will … Read More
Become the Warrior of Your Own Justice; A Path of Contemplation
“The choice today is no longer between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1960 Dear Friends, Last week, Wednesday, April 4th, we all took a pause to remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his assassination. This quote from Dr. King in 1960 came from Michael Eric Dyson’s book … Read More
The Dog Angel and a Practice of Contemplation
“This world is a beginning and a base, Where Life and Mind erect their structured dreams, An unborn power must build reality.” – Sri Aurobindo, Savitri; The Secret Knowledge Dear Friends, My heart is forever grateful for your outpouring of love and support at the loss of my little angel and best friend Yeled. Every day I go down to the oak grove to sit … Read More
Creating Your Ship of Serenity
This is a poem about the great ships that wandered the oceans, And groaned sometimes in deep voices, grumbling about fog and submerged peaks, But usually they sliced the pages of tropical seas in silence, Divided by height, category, and class, just like our communities and hotels. – From, Great Ships, by poet Adam Zagajewski, translated by Claire Cavanaugh. Dear Friends, Thank you for your time and thank you for … Read More
Finding the Still Place Within During Life’s Passages
“Whenever your foundation is laid in God, there will be nothing that can shake it, no matter how strong the storm is.” – Angelo M. Swinson. Dear Friends, I am writing you from my home. It has been a painful time for me as our family dog, Yeled, has been in the hospital for almost two weeks. First of all I want to say thank you to all … Read More
Reuniting with the Heart of the Universe
“The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.” – Ramana Maharshi. Dear Friends, It is the mystical experience that will take you into the heart of the Universe. The heart of heaven within is in you. It is in the very center of your soul and it … Read More
The Mystical Journey
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” – Buddha. The current global shift that has been a long time coming is part of our creation process. It is part of our evolutionary process so that we may become the spiritual beings and masters of the … Read More
Your Purpose Is to Be a Master
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” – Buddha. I hope you enjoyed the video from last week, How Acting Opened My Doorway for Divine Light. As I contemplate the quote, “All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players…” the reality of our shared dream becomes clearer and clearer. We … Read More
How Acting Opened My Doorway for Divine Light
“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.” – William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616. In meditating on what I wanted to share with you this week, I returned to some archives of mystical teachings … Read More
Calling in the Heart of Your Beloved
“The Voice of my Beloved! Behold, came suddenly to redeem me, as if leaping over mountains, skipping over hills…” “ I thought I would be forever alone, but behold!” – Song of Songs. We all have the longing for a deeper experience of love. This is part of our human nature to desire to connect in a truly intimate way … Read More