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Buoys

Bobbing freely
above the drowning,
briny sea,
they move with
the breeze yet
remain tethered
to solid ground beneath
darkly mysterious
still waters.
I look into those eyes,
such deeply rooted guides
which flow with every mood
yet never become lost
by my winding path.

December 29th, 2006 | Category: Poetry | 3 comments

Seasonal Poems to Warm the Soul

Happy Winter Solstice! I may not be religious in the traditional sense, but I understand and cherish the importance of the “spirit of the season”.

As many of you know, Jesus wasn’t born in December, but his birthday was placed near the pagan Roman holiday of Saturnalia by Constantine to encourage pagans to join the church. [...]

December 22nd, 2006 | Category: Christmas Poems, Healing, Inspiration, Inspirational Poems, Spirituality | 4 comments

Integral Spirituality, Humanist Spirituality

Another New Age trend? Well, perhaps a New, new age, looking beyond crystals and incense. Why should we think about these ideas?

All peoples from around the world maintain some kind of spiritual practice. It adds meaning and wholeness to their lives. I am included in that bunch. When I started this blog is was about [...]

December 19th, 2006 | Category: Buddhist Thinking, Philosophical Questions, Social Culture, Spirituality, Yoga Thinking | 11 comments

Closing the Gap Between Thoughts and Life

There is often a gap between thoughts and actions, between ideas and the plot of living. Life is a river. If you sit there thinking about it, pondering it, worrying about it all the time, then you are on the bank watching life go by.

I’m not talking about thinking before making a decision. Big decisions [...]

December 13th, 2006 | Category: Buddhist Thinking, Social Culture, Yoga Thinking | 2 comments

The Edge

Standing at the edge of the cliff
We notice there are two possibilities.
One, we can remain, safe, where we are.
Or we can jump into an unknown future.

On one hand,
we are freed by the possibility of not jumping.
But imagining the flight without experiencing it
is a also a kind of suicide.

Seeing both sides of the view is not [...]

December 11th, 2006 | Category: Deep Thoughts, Philosophical Questions | 3 comments
 
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