Tag: wisdom

  You, beloved, fill me, As nothing else can. You transform my loneliness Into solitude. You incite my longing To be an open vessel, For your Life-giving essence To flow in and through me To show up In my actions, my words, My thoughts. Oh, how painful it is When my mind forgets Your loving… Continue reading Gratitude is All That Remains

A friend of mine recently asked me, “Why do you write and share your thoughts with people.” He added, “People are just going to do what they do, regardless of whether or not you offer a better idea. Plus,” he continued, “you said no one reads your blog anyway.” I replied that I share what… Continue reading Why I Share my Thoughts

When we are still in the process of remembering who and what we are, we can be confused by the appearance of separateness. When we fully recall the Truth of our being, all sense of separation vanishes. Think about these words from Tomas Stubbs: You see an endless vista of mountain tops poking through the clouds.… Continue reading The Wisdom of Remembering

Buckminster Fuller has been touted as one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century. I will not go into depth about this man, as the internet is filled with information on him, but I will state that he is someone who greatly intrigues me. He had an amazing mind and his observations of everything spiritual… Continue reading Bucky’s Approximation of TRUTH

Every time we have a shocking event, which unfortunately is far too often, the media inundates us with an unending flood of experts from all known fields of human behavior. Always the one overriding, compelling question that each inquiring mind seeks to answer is “Why?”  It seems there is some secret agreement that if we… Continue reading Get to KNOW Yourself, by all Means

If I tell you that any God the mind can conceive is a creation of that mind, how does that sit with you? Do you become defensive? Do you immediately go to a place where you want to make me wrong, or do you agree with this concept? Is your mind open enough to consider… Continue reading God as Concept

When I was twenty-one years old, I became a Police Officer. I had been a Police Cadet for two and one-half years and went on the streets one day after my twenty-first birthday. Within a week I was riding by myself, patrolling the West End of Kansas City, Kansas, which was the quiet side of… Continue reading One Man’s Evolution

This morning I spent some time trying to find the root cause of Friday the 13th as being an unlucky day. While there are numerous possible causes for this superstition, there is no concrete evidence as to the belief’s origin. It is not important how or why this day became notorious and synonymous with bad… Continue reading Happy Friday the 13th

There is nothing I enjoy more than curling up with a good book. Add a little lightning, a rhythmic rainfall, and a couple of comfortable pillows and bliss is unavoidable. I love to read. It is something I did not discover until I was in the Army at age 23. Throughout all the years of… Continue reading Where the Rubber Meets the Road

How do we make decisions? It kind of depends on whom and what we believe we are doesn’t it? If I believe I am the flesh and bones which has a mind and that I am somehow defined by the culmination of my life experience, I probably place great value on what is stored in… Continue reading Intellect vs. Wisdom