Who Am I?

Do I spend my life discovering who I am? Or do I spend my life creating who I am?

How Do You Know Yourself?

How is it that you know yourself? By thinking? By memory? By meditation?

By being still. By being present. By listening for the current of the Divine that flows through us all.

Reflections

Open the door to the world beyond yourself, and you will see yourself reflected in its many surfaces.

When you look below the surface, you realize you have been there all along -- and all the universe with you.

Not to Be One

Each star shines its own light. Each holly berry has never been seen before. Each snowflake, of course, is unique. Each cell in our bodies is one of a kind.

Is every electron also different? Every neutrino, every meson, every quark? How far does this uniqueness extend?

What if the universe is simply God's exploration of what it is not to be One?

The Gift of Gratitude

To feel grateful for what you have is itself a gift to be thankful for. Gratitude is its own reward.

Being Still

Stand still and calm the heart.
Sit still and calm the mind.
Lie still and calm the spirit.

Learning to be patient when
you are not patient is hard.
Learning to be patient when
you are patient is easier.

The Fearless Now

One of the great frustrations of being alive is that we can only know so much. When we try to cure ourselves of this by learning more, we only add to the list of things we'll never know. The more we know, the more we know we don't know.

Ignorance creates fear.

When we lose ourselves in the boundless Tao, we can let go of both learning and ignorance, and live in the fearless now.

When You Look

When you look,
the tulip will bloom.

When you listen,
thunder will rattle the windows.

When you taste,
the ocean will turn salty.

When you sniff,
the wind will smell like rain.

When you touch,
marble will turn cool.

The universe is waiting
for you to pay attention.

Jesus as Son of God?

Did Jesus see himself as the Son of God?

Probably not.

More likely, he discovered within himself the Eternal Tao that cannot be named and tried to carry the message that we are all vessels of the Divine.

Jesus as Messiah?

Did Jesus see himself as the Messiah, the Savior of the world?

Probably not.

More likely, he saw the corruption and injustice of the religious leaders of his day and decided to confront them.

Tao Time

Clocks are a human innovation. They are a way to capture time and put it to use. By using time, we're able to accomplish things both great and small.

The Tao is timeless. When we are in the Way, clocks become unnecessary. The entire universe unfolds right on cue.

Walking Through the Tao

My spiritual journey isn't measured in miles. It isn't measured in hours or days or months. It really isn't measured by any calculation.

So is it really a journey? If so, where am I traveling from? Where am I now? Where am I heading?

It is like walking through the Tao. It cannot be done.