“Nothing is yet in its true form.” ~ C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“I think people don’t feel that they have permission to talk about something that makes them as vulnerable as love, so we don’t usually talk about it in public. I once had the idea of having a red bench in every corporation. And the red bench would be an invitation to conversations that matter. So [...]

i had fun yesterday filming at nike and ohsu for a documentary about spirituality in the workplace (as if we could be anywhere that spirit is not, funny huh? as if we could dissect our being…okay, get up get dressed leave heart, spirit in closet…take brain and body to workplace…and yet?) and dim sum in [...]

some things deserve to be dissolved burn baby burn sweet like desire

All of your work won’t fit in the earth When you’re lying underground in the grave Whatever amount in your balanced account There’s nothing you can buy in the grave In the next age, no stock exchange Is going to pass on the money we make No lottery wins, political spins When we’re lying underground [...]

Staying in Love

mt. st. helens ~ february 2012 french philosopher, gaston blanchard, in his book “the poetics of space” describes three qualities that comprise soul grandeur a sense of “unio mystica and carpax universi” these three qualities are inseparable in our human experience and accompany the intense experience of awe, reverence, mystery when we come into union [...]

It’s a beautiful thing when God graces you with consolations while you sleep. Last night…I don’t know if I was waking or sleeping or floating somewhere in the in-between-ness… I heard: there comes a point when you forgive it all and say…’love, embody me.’ today the sun is shining i am going on an outing [...]

When your true nature is realized, it is not as if you will have some amazing experience, and after that say, “Okay world, I’m ready.” The deepest experience is when you realize that this open, radiant, empty mind and open, radiant heart have always been open.  They don’t need to open, they are not going [...]