You cannot imagine - or, maybe you can - how many religious people, mostly religious leaders, say to me, "I agree with much of what you say...much …
It's the one thing everyone wants. Few people seem to find it. Fewer still know where to look. For, happiness, that is. I wasted more …
At the World Congress of Religions (2012) Swami Vivekananda said, "Nothing makes us so cruel as religion; and, nothing makes so tender as religion."…
Balancing one's dreams and drives with the harsh realities and circumstances of life can be a challenge, right? For most of my life, I have lived …
BLACK FRIDAY and the "Scarcity Effect"... Black Friday's success is based largely on what retailers call "the scarcity effect." By creating the …
It abounds everywhere, doesn't it? Religious people use the word faith so much, you would think they actually knew something about it. Like a person…
I am always arriving, always en route, always going somewhere, am I not? Are you not? Yet, whenever I finally get THERE I discover it's only just…
It is one thing to do good. Quite another thing, however, when the crafty ego within you seizes the good you do as a way to be revered. Mark …
I do not know who said it but it is full of wisdom: "I envy the tree, how it reaches but never holds." For as long as I can remember, something …
Pam and I had lunch yesterday at a little restaurant in old Louisville. We were discussing the condition of a friend and family member in a nearby …
This is so true, isn't it? Nepo nails me when he writes of himself: "I waste so many hours not just in trying to get published, but in hunting …
In a new book I must read, and you might wish to read as well, is T. E. Lurhmann's When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical …
Mechthild of Magdeburg once said, "A fish cannot drown in water; a bird does not fall in air. Each creature God made must live in its own true …
The Sufi poet, Ghalib, said, "For the raindrop, joy is entering the river." When you and I first appear, this is how we arrive - in oneness with …
I finished running around our neighborhood yesterday and, as I slowed to a brisk walk the final few hundred yards, I suddenly became present. That …
As with most great movies, there are many parallels to our shared experience as human beings in the most recent blockbuster, "The Hunger Games." …
"If you want to be happy," said Leo Tolstoy, "BE." I used to hear people say this and I would think, "Be what?" I know now, that's the wrong …
I have always loved Louis L'Amour's statement: "There will come a time when you believe everything is finished...that will be the beginning." …
If Jesus and God were one, as he claimed they were (John 10:30). And, if Jesus prayed, as of course he did (John 17:21) that you and God would be …
For much of my adult life, I've hidden my inner self from others...my questions, my doubts, my fears, my terror over being judged or worse rejected.…
