Category Archives: Coherence

Briefly. What did you think Love would look like, when at last you realized or remembered it? What did you think oneness with God would feel like? When our fundamental unity with all life is at last revealed, what will it be like to be you? We cannot crave that which we do not knowContinue reading “Advent Travels: A Critter in Creation”

We put our tree up yesterday. Late Friday, C. drove with our daughters to a farm a couple town north, an old man with a meadow full of scraggly pines. You put twenty bucks in an envelope on the porch and then cut down a tree. It’s a tall tree – at least seven feet.Continue reading “Advent Travels: A Footnote Almost”

I like this story. Abba Lot went to see Abba Joseph.He said, “Abba Joseph,as far as I can say,I do my little office,and I read my psalms.I fast a little and prayand meditate.I live in peace with others and,as far as possible,I purify my thoughts.Tell me, Father, what else –what more – can I do?”Continue reading “Advent Travels: Hidden by Storm Clouds”

I The Next Buddha I don’t remember when I first read Michael Bauwans’ “The Next Buddha Will Be a Collective: Spiritual Expression in the Peer-to-Peer Era.” It was written in 2007; I doubt I saw it until at least 2012. I liked the title. Bauwans suggested that society is evolving away from an historic emphasisContinue reading “Christ is a Collective”

Often I am outside before dawn. Light changes; the world wakes up. Chickens and horses, neighbors walking dogs, the traffic on Route Nine going east. When we are still and quiet, the world wakes up inside us. Thought slows and the mind extends far beyond the body, discovering it is already one with the horses,Continue reading “Called Home to the Holy Instant”

Happiness is a decision for which we are responsible. It is not more complex than that. We don’t need to fix anything outside of us; we have to let go of the idea that anything outside of us can be fixed. None of that is the problem. Our work as students of A Course inContinue reading “The Decision to be Happy”