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Placing your gift on the altar
Altars are the sacred sites on which we place both our gifts and our sacrifices. But the intention behind the act is the same — this I give to you, this precious part of me I give to you. Just because there is...
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What must die for you to be reborn?
What has to die in your life for you to be reborn? What sits between you and the more expansive life you know is possible? What has to die in your life to allow you to become part of the great awakening of humanity?
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I went to the desert
Last summer I went to the desert with friends to watch some art burn. There were massive, intricate, ornate temples and pagodas created solely to be enjoyed for a few days after which they were set alight; offerings...
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A peculiar courage
We are facing a changing time. The effects of the isolated self are coming home to roost. We can no longer plunder the Earth with impunity. We have come to understand that we are a nested, complex organism that has...
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A strange freedom
I don’t believe in a Golden Age. Stories about how great the world once was always strike me as fantasy and I think about my friend’s grandmother who once looked at me from the side of her eye saying, “The Good old...
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I owe you something
There is something that happens to us when you and I agree we’re in relationship, something that flows from my eyes into your eyes and from your eyes into my eyes. It is a sacred acknowledgment of our mutual being....
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You have to answer with an action
Paradise is not a place with walls. Nor is it a place with no walls. Paradise is not an intellectual concept. Words are not going to get us there because in so many ways words force us to choose a side. The only...
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Befriending the Anxiety
Maintaining a daily meditation or prayer practice is the single most common desire I hear expressed when talking with people about their spiritual lives. But often it is framed as a desire for something that is just...
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Is there room for grace in a culture of agency?
We are not so helpless and so fallen that our salvation depends on the judgment of God. God has no judgment. God does not have the capacity to judge. The creative force only wants to be with us, to move through us,...
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The Yes that is so much greater than our own being
If you believe, as I do, that cultivating your spiritual life is vital to your sense of well-being in the world, vital to your very health then cultivating a sense of Yes in your life is of primary importance. Within...
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Attention Deficit Disorder
We all suffer from an attention deficit disorder. Not in the sense that we can’t hold our focus, but that none of us get enough attention. And in our loneliness, we fill our lives with material substitutes for what we...
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Following the wild goose
There have been decades of choices that brought you to this moment. Are you ready to follow the spirit further? What would your life be like is praise rested at the center of your being? Praise for being offered the...
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