I must not think of myself as standing on the shore making ripples in a lake…I am the splash.
In this story…we are not the goal of creation; we are a part of its continuing story.
Differentiate between 'theisms' to find your comfort zone
When I open up my heart to let others into it, something sometimes happens. Something good.
Four years after Amanda Lindhout was freed, she could write, “I choose to forgive the people who took my freedom from me and abused me…”
Do happy, long-lived people join in more social activities and volunteer than grumpy people?
Ancient monks felt uplifted while singing sonorous psalms.
I had thought of selfies as an aberration until I read The Road to Character, by David Brooks.
Most empires imposed authority from the top down. The Christian church infiltrated from the bottom up.
How we handle complex matters may show true intelligence.
Learning negotiation skills and how to compromise is all in a day’s play.
The world’s Joy Quotient declined a little on Sunday March 6, when Ian Macdonald died.
Little hens that don’t mind the cold go north to lay eggs for Inuvik.
We are whole body creatures. We communicate with our whole bodies. We listen with our whole bodies.
Did the Big Bang make a bang?…At the instant of creation, there was nothing to ripple. Not even space for the ripples to expand into.
Breathing an unconscious act that sustains us all.
Animals who know they are dying don’t head for the centre of the pack. They slip off quietly into the night.
To me, the real world’s continually changing kaleidoscope can only happen symbiotically. No one is in charge, directing every detail.
Linguist James Harbeck introduced me to the word “limen” which means, in its original Latin, a threshold, a crossing over.
If I don’t want things anymore, does that mean that, for all intents and purposes, I cease to exist?
