What do we mean, exactly, when we say a thing is “by” someone? Yes, we are attributing the thing’s creation to that someone. But how is something just by us when it is based on all the input and teachings… (READ MORE)
Dear Friends, I hope you are thriving to the greatest extent possible under your current circumstances in this outrageous Spring and weathering (pun intended) the wild fluctuations between apparent late winter and seemingly already mid-summer. My garden has been uncertain… (READ MORE)
Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.
The ubiquitous exhortation to love that we find in so many spiritual teachings does not, I think, require us to love the individual as an individual. Loving an individual particularly requires liking, and liking is an idiosyncratic thing and as… (READ MORE)
Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.
Lucretia Mott (at Manhassett Friends Meeting) Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.
Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.
We need protection from the sun as much as we need the sun. The yogi philosophers could perhaps point to this pair of opposing forces/needs as an example of the elemental pulsation of opposites (spanda) that is universal to all… (READ MORE)
Fascinating video about Bhagawan Ramana Maharshi.
The great texts and teachers of meditation exhort us to look within with the promise that by so doing we will find great peace or bliss or splendor. For many, though, initial attempts at meditation are just as likely to… (READ MORE)