Seek and ye shall find. When the student is ready the teacher will appear. I will go before you and make the crooked places straight. What all of these statements (and countless others) point to – at least to me – is this: seek God and God will ensure you find It. What I’ve found is that the more earnest and steadfast my search, the more help is delivered (never the way I expect it – keeps the process interesting).…
Jesus, the Buddha, Lao Tzo, Ramana Maharshi, Rumi, and scores of other mystics simply and consistently stated that our lone goal in this world is to (re)discover our true nature, the central conceit being that a false ego has arisen to cloud this reality. Sprinkled across human…
As children we learn to trust the authority of the twin deities called ‘mom’ and ‘dad’ and then, a bit later, that same authority is transferred to the school gods known as teachers. As young children even our friends serve as erstwhile thought leaders, since they…
Not so long ago I caught a snippet of a story about a U.S. drone attack on insurgents in Pakistan. Turns out we killed some villagers including a handful of kids. These things happen, right? The story explained that the U.S. government apologized and…