This weekend I spent 24 hours (I’m excluding sleeping time) with 300 people in the Santa Cruz Mountains at 1440 Multiversity for the first On Being Gathering. There is so…
Category: Soul
The way the soul is with the senses and the mind, is like a creek. When desire-weeds grow thick, your intelligence cannot flow, and soul-creatures stay hidden. But sometimes a…
There was a time when I realized that all the books I was reading — fiction or memoir — were about people on a journey. I suppose most stories are…
In Biosphere 2, a closed ecosystem experiment that was tried in Arizona, the trees that grew inside this giant greenhouse-like structure were weak because they were never exposed to wind…
I read this article today that I found still resonates to this day. One part in particular that I continue to dance with is this: Grief crowds the heart, eats…
All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My…
We spend the weekend in beautiful Sebastopol, CA, this weekend. It reminds me of the Napa of my youth, still feeling like a small country outpost. It’s a cute little…
People often refer to their personal or spiritual exploration as a “journey.” It seems to me that a more appropriate metaphor is to “drop anchor.” We are always in motion,…