New Year’s day is only one important day among 365 important days.
Understandably, the first half of life is spent anchoring ourselves; imperatively, the second half is spent unmooring ourselves.
The heart is a spotted pear — there’s no getting through without some bruising.
The mind is a sea star — moving its brilliant purple rays in multidirectional ways, and clinging, so often, to the same facade.
The soul at peace is paradise.
Beneath the surface of an ordinary day lies an infinite wellspring of meaning—this untold depth is what we may call God.
It’s been said you can’t get blood from stone; but today, the fallen heaps of rubble won’t stop bleeding—and they will not stop accusing.
Tempting, in this climate, to trade the callus-building requirements of reality for the passive comfort of hoping.
Tend well your Brown-eyed Susan, it is the only flower that symbolizes justice.
To laugh at yourself is to deinstitutionalize your ego.
The individual is a phantom — in wonder and blunder we receive our selves through the eyes of others. Meaning, dear reader, my personal fulfillment is in your flourishing.
Should you want to find God, which is to say, should you desire meaning, learn a way (not unlike the cruciform path of Jesus) to love the earth and her array of inhabitants.
Our favoured assumptions should routinely be set on fire to see what rises from the ash.
A tincture of cynicism is emancipating, but a full-meal is constipating.
The crushed grapes of relinquishment can sometimes be Beaujolais for the soul.
If you press your face against a keyboard, canvas, soapstone, it sometimes opens a door.
Art enlarges our being and bearing, which is why despots of commerce de-fund it.
What seemed unthinkable is now obvious—both science and religion are converging on the essential fire. It’s time they had a heart-to-heart.
Every birdcall beckons, “Unveil your hearts!” “All creation cries for love!” is every cricket’s song.
Of course we are falling, let us pray for companionship in the descent.
Death and dying — hard, hard, hard — and any kind of bromide, unfitting.
To counsel hope can sometimes be malpractice.
To discount hope is human dereliction and spiritual delinquency.
The twin sister of praise is grief.
Aging changes chores into privileges and anxieties into prayers.
Don’t vomit outright; some poisons need to pass through so you’ll know what to hate, what to tolerate.
Despite the crazed magnificence of our vanities, our true longing is to be each other’s joy.
The Big Bang is God’s dancing body. The shimmering fallout is yours.
The Second Coming, if we have the eyes for it, is us, in our unfolding inclusiveness.
Regarding global warming: time, now, we let the spruce and salmon vote.
There are over 25 flowers that symbolize peace, this coming year, pick one and join any nonviolent earth-affirming, life-liberating, protest march.
Put your love where there is no love and you will find love—the only religion worth practicing.
Wishing you a beautiful New Year of unfolding love and renewed purpose.