Category Archives: Awakening

Often it is helpful to go slowly: to not rush to conclusions, and to be aware of the many threads that are present in thought. Attention is a way of asking: what is showing up? What is here? For most of us, what shows up is some variation on “our” lives. The first-person subjective lensContinue reading “On Concluding”

Something obstructs our happiness. We try and try and we don’t get any happier. Maybe we even get more scared and lonely and sad. Can we see that thinking is not always our ally? That our happiness may depend on a change of mind that transcends what we thought we knew? Richard Feynman, a notedContinue reading “A Course in Miracles: Changing our Mind”

We might be tempted to say that the student who sees a snake and subsequently sees it is a rope made a mistake. Thought inclines towards right and wrong so that kind of judgment can seem natural and even necessary. Yet there is a way to see this that is not about mistakes at all.Continue reading “On Error and Correction”

The debt I feel to A Course in Miracles is large; yet simultaneously, it is known that there is nothing to be in debt to, nor a self to be so indebted. This paradox is problematic only if one expects language to function differently than is its nature. Words are separative – once they areContinue reading “On Remembering to be Grateful”

So long as there is seeking, there will be people who appear to have answers, and who will share those answers as part of an exchange – for money, for worship, for intimacy and so forth. There is nothing wrong with this. When questions are projected, answers appear. When answers appear, acceptance or rejection ofContinue reading “The Seeking that Comes and Goes”

Space is a helpful metaphor for what we are calling God – those of us prone to that word – but it is still just a metaphor. In and of itself it is not liberating. It is not that to which it points. Consider a ceramic tea pot. In late morning, after we have finishedContinue reading “Looking Deeply into God”