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Inner peace

May 15, 2021 12:00 AM

Is it real or an illusion?

If we were to do an in-depth study of the mystical aspects of the world’s major faith traditions, we would find that the basic understanding, beliefs and tenets...
May 08, 2021 12:00 AM

Inner Peace: Just another morning awakening

This morning, slowing waking from a difficult night’s sleep, I hear the honking of geese flying nearby. I wonder how their experience of this morning differs f...
May 01, 2021 12:00 AM

Inner Peace: Time for self-reflection

Stubbornness, mulishness, pigheadedness and obstinacy: My thesaurus has numerous synonyms for what holding your knee on someone’s neck for over 9 minutes descri...
Apr 24, 2021 10:08 AM

Awareness is the beginning of change

“Love casting” is a term I first heard in 1976 when I visited a Colorado ranch with my film crew to interview the man Ian Fleming modeled his James Bond stories...
Apr 17, 2021 12:00 AM

Peace begins at home

Lasting peace cannot be created, built or forced to happen. If this were so, the world would be a better place. Just as when we deeply sleep everything in our...
Apr 10, 2021 12:15 AM

The soul of money

Money is a subject that interests almost everyone. People who are seeking spiritual counseling seek advice and prayers on the subject of money more than on any...
Apr 03, 2021 12:00 AM

Inhale the fullness of being

Last Saturday in this space, in a column I submitted about breathing, the focus of the exhale was in releasing, surrendering, emptying. That is good foundation...
Mar 26, 2021 08:39 PM

The breath is more than breathing

The cyclical rhythm of the breath is with us for a lifetime. We begin a life on the in breath, and we end it on an out breath. Between these two, the whole life...
Mar 19, 2021 08:01 PM

Inner Peace

In 1966, the U. S. Peace Corps sent a newlywed couple, my wife, Sarah, and me, to Brazil. After a week of in-country orientation in Rio de Janeiro, we flew nort...
Mar 12, 2021 08:11 PM

Inner Peace

The how and what of inner peace revealed itself to me 33 years ago, and I've used the secret ever since. I had recently met the man who would become my second h...
Mar 05, 2021 08:40 PM

Inner Peace

It has been said that God is as close as the air we breathe. In ancient Hinduism, the breath is everything. It does not just begin or support life, the breath i...
Feb 26, 2021 08:14 PM

Inner Peace

Bottom line, I am a predicamentalist. (Pree-dick-uh-ment-uh-list - It's got a rhythm to it. ) By this I mean that in contrast to most people's belief that we ha...
Feb 22, 2021 12:00 AM

Inner Peace

My dog's name is Zeus. He came with that name - a 40-pound mix with a harlequin face of white and gold, a very good-looking dog. We are both early risers, thoug...
Feb 12, 2021 08:30 PM

Inner Peace

How do we create world peace? Einstein advised that we can't solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them. He also defined insanity as "doin...
Feb 06, 2021 12:00 AM

Inner Peace

Many will suppose that we, as human beings, should know our place and be humble. The ancient Greeks had their teaching stories about this, like the story of Ica...
Jan 29, 2021 08:47 PM

Inner Peace

Describing the effects of this pandemic in terms of depths of despair, pain, disruption and uncertainty is not possible. It is simply too overwhelming and invas...
Jan 25, 2021 10:23 AM

Aspirin, water and spiritual healing

For centuries, healing practitioners using various modalities have attempted to heal bodily conditions, wounds and diseases. Modern allopathic medicine has come...
Jan 18, 2021 10:21 AM

Inner Peace

"Bully for you. " Remember that saying? Like it's OK to bully your way through whatever, wherever, whenever, go ahead, push, pull, be bold and assert yourself. ...
Jan 08, 2021 08:02 PM

Inner Peace

We all face loss in our lives. I have not lost my home, as have so many in our valley recently. My heart goes out to them. This article is about the deepest los...
Jan 01, 2021 08:27 PM

Inner Peace

There is nothing that we as a community could have gained during the first year of the COVID pandemic that could possibly mitigate a quarter million dead Americ...