Inspiration

There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken,A shatteredness out of which blooms the unshatterable.There is a sorrow beyond all grief which leads to joy,And a fragility out of whose depths emerges strength.There is a hollow space too vast for words,Through which we pass with each loss,Out of whose darkness we are sanctioned

Oh, this garment of flesh,a temporary crèche for our soulsas we polish the jewelsof awareness. Beloved friend,you came and you wentfrom this earth plane,fearlessly dancing on the edgesof timelessness and time,quietly poisedon the molten ledgeswhere sanity unfoldsinto a multi-dimensionalspectrum. And:no one came and no one left.A thousand faces appearedand disappearedthrough the filters of others’perceptions and

It is ironic that the people who receive most of the world’s adulation are so busy living the unexamined life that they have no time to do authentic soul work. Politicians, actors, athletes, rock stars, the movers and shakers-they don’t take the time to walk the interior path. There’s little reason to suspect that many

“Men need a kind of baptism or initiation to set them on a spiritual path. This can take the form of a major failure, an overriding desire, or often a great wounding-physical, emotional, or psychological. We need to fall, to fail, and to jump into the mystery of our own existence, or we literally stay

My wish for youIs that you continue Continue To be who and how you areTo astonish a mean worldWith your acts of kindness Continue To allow humor to lighten the burdenOf your tender heart Continue In a society dark with crueltyTo let the people hear the grandeurOf God in the peals of your laughter Continue