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Reaching the Big Everywhere

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have enough time.  So observes comedian Steven Wright.  But do we have enough time to reach the Big Everywhere––our inner heart and its ocean of endless love, light and fire?

Stoke the Sacred Fire, Or Piss on It

Perhaps the greatest blessing of the health care “debate” has nothing to do with the historic legislation passed by Congress, but rather how well that “debate” reveals the high level of fear that permeates our society (and, for all I know, every society on earth).  

Why a blessing?

Managing fear is among those practices essential to becoming a person able to respond with kindness to whatever life presents.  We may never become that person completely, but the journey itself can get pretty darn joyful.  Sadly, at this point in human evolution, fear management is about as well-developed in many of us as sky-diving onto a postage stamp.  

The Ultimate Joy Ride

 

The universe is so damned accommodating.  It gives us what we ask for.

When I finally did more than bang my gums about my life’s purpose and actually committed myself to living it, I awoke duct-taped to a shooting star.

I Am All The People I Ever Met

 

“Who am I, you ask?  I don’t know, my friend.  I am all the languages I ever spoke, I am all the places I ever lived, I am all the people I ever met, I am all the women I ever loved, I am all the writers I ever read; I am all my ancestors – but at least they had the decency of never thinking of themselves as writers.  Who am I, you ask?  I don’t know, my friend; I don’t even know who is writing this page.”

— Jorge Luis Borges