The Great Mystery: Love
The Sufi and Eastern mystics say that the key to realizing God is to empty yourself and they’re right. Once you empty out all the things of this world, the wantings and longings driven by ego and directed at fulfilling …
Tag: Spirituality
Ruminations on Past and Future: Another August Day
8:44 AM. Voices and hands and feet echo and bounce off the walls and I awake to another day in August. I shake off my nightmares and all of their painful psychological detritus. I should have known the nightmares would …
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Grace
A few days ago, a blogging friend took pictures of herself in which she scrawled horrible names like “Freak” on a mirror with red lipstick, and I saw these words and I felt her pain and I felt my pain …
Leaping into and over Puddles
It is 2 p.m. and it is time to go for a run. I don’t care that it is pouring outside. It seems appropriate to leap into puddles today; then again, I never really outgrew puddle jumping. I don’t stop …