I shall say that I want it all. If you ask me how much I want, I shall tell you that I want it all. You and I and everyone are flowing this morning Into the marvellous stream of oneness. Small pieces of imagination we are, We have come a long way to find ourselves, And for ourselves in the dark, The illusion of emancipation. This morning my brother is back from his long adventure. He kneels before the altar and his eyes are filled with tears. His soul is looking for a shore to put an … Continue reading

For thousands of years, ever since humans started settling in cities, we evolved in rigid, patriarchal and extremely authoritarian structures – at least in the West. This started changing after the industrial revolution and the pace has been picking up since the end of the last war. Many authoritarian structures have become much weaker or have collapsed. Especially in Europe (but this will probably also happen in the United States), churches have quasi disappeared and religion has lost almost … Continue reading

I have solar on my roof, just bought an electric car, and do much of my shopping at the local farmer’s market. But my home is a new development, which was forest less than a decade ago. Amongst those who lost their homes for mine would have been sugar gliders and powerful owls. I rely on transnational shipping for lots of other stuff. I could live without it, but i don’t have to. Yet. No matter what we do, short of going completely off grid and supplying everything we need within a small … Continue reading

At times, our reference points will fall away, revealing a shimmering, pregnant, endarkened void. What we were so clear about just days ago is nowhere to be found. The relationship we thought would be there forever, creativity and meaning in our work, a body and psyche that would never know anxiety, loneliness, melancholy, or depression… even our deepest insights and realizations – recycled in the activity of the vast. The solid ground we once took refuge in has disintegrated underneath, … Continue reading

There are two most powerful days in your life. The day you are born and the day you discover why. ~ Boniface Mwangi Photo by Aziz Acharki on Unsplash Continue reading

I look for the way things will turn out spiraling from a center, the shape things will take to come forth in so that the birch tree white touched black at branches will stand out wind-glittering totally its apparent self: I look for the forms things want to come as from what black wells of possibility, how a thing will unfold: not the shape on paper — though that, too — but the uninterfering means on paper: not so much looking for the shape as being available to any shape that may … Continue reading

Like many others who know the world as beloved, I am often intoxicated by wild places, driven as mad as Rumi but with Earth (not Shams) as my love. Certain places — like where springwater falls over a slickrock ledge, sculpting the land of canyons, or where steam bubbles from dark cauldrons in Yellowstone while bison hunker nearby — have a power to radically alter my state of consciousness, such that suddenly my bodymind re-members the most expansive thoughts, ecstatic feelings, deepest … Continue reading

“The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not the thinker. The moment you becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind." ~ Eckhart Tolle Photo by Vincent Ledvina on Unsplash Continue reading

Sometimes you find yourself close to the edge. The old existence, the one that yesterday seemed so solid, so fixed like a billion year-old stellar constellation, has shattered. No way of getting back to the way things were, it seems. No way of rewinding the movie and you ache to rewind. A terrible nostalgia for “back then” and its happy obliviousness to each tomorrow. A painful sense of regret in your belly and chest. And because the past has disintegrated the future has too. No way of … Continue reading