Living Grace

If you have ever listened to Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech or read his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” you have undoubtedly felt the power and transformative truth behind his words. Clearly, an incredible spirit or energy manifested in and through...

As I stated yesterday, if we are going to really know God we must leave the conceptual world behind; we must enter into our own interior spaciousness. However, such leaving requires a level of detachment from our own agendas, ideas and ideologies. We must come to...

Consider this essential question: Do we know about God or do we know God?  The first question is conceptual; the second, experiential. In the domain of things and objects, conceptual or intellectual knowing helps us to balance our check books, build computers, and so...

At the risk of sounding morbid, no one is getting out of this world alive. Our souls are immortal, but our bodies are not. At a certain point in time our life projects are going to come to an end along with our relationships as we know them and this lifetime's...

Monday: We take for granted a profound mystery that unfolds within us each of us every day of our lives: our capacity for conscious awareness. Tuesday: Enlightened scientists and the world’s mystics know that “Consciousness” gave rise to matter and guided...

All this week I have been writing about our God-given capacity for awareness and what a gift it is. If we are honest with ourselves, we will readily acknowledge that  our awareness is most often not neutral. We choose to see what we want to see, to notice what is...