Forgiveness         is not               an emotion, but     the act of                  dying to     my        self-righteousness. K. Bradford Brown, PhD, Inside Out, Mental Touchstones for the Awakening Spirit

One of my spiritual adventures a few years ago was swimming with wild dolphins off Akaroa, a city on a peninsula on the South Island, New Zealand. I was so excited, it was something that I had been longing to experience for quite some time. And I wanted to experience being with wild dolphins, not... Learn More

One of my spiritual adventures a few years ago was swimming with wild dolphins off Akaroa, a city on a peninsula on the South Island, New Zealand. I was so excited, it was something that I had been longing to experience for quite some time. And I wanted to experience being with wild dolphins, not... Learn More

Actually, I didn’t think "Thank you" when I first got Kirsten’s email. I won’t tell you what I actually thought, ‘cuz it wasn’t nice at all, at all … which is more of a comment about me, than it is about Kirsten, even though it didn’t look like that to me at the time. Fortunately,... Learn More

Remember what it’s like to slowly and languorously wake up in the morning?  First hearing little bird sounds or kid sounds or a neighbor mowing the lawn, feeling the smoothness of the sheets against your skin and the way your pillow is just right, tasting the "morning taste" in your mouth, then smelling the fragrance... Learn More

There are basically two fundamental states. The one for which most of us strive is motivated by connection or alignment within ourselves, call it a sense of peacefulness or satisfaction, well being, curious, open, real, love or any of the feelings that we would normally call ‘good.’ This connection extends out to others in our... Learn More