The earth turned toward the sun at the same speed as always, but this morning the sun was veiled behind a curtain of cloud, which moved slowly west over the water toward our small patch of land. So the eye of the day — in Bahasa Indonesia, the sun is mata hari, quite literally the …
I met Manny last night — the first time we have really sat down together since our return to the States. After 30 days of intense travel, having shared the floor of the experience, as it were, as well as visited the sky, it was an easy hour which stretched to two, speaking about nothing …
If you do not meet the sacred in yourself, you will not meet the sacred in anything; if you meet the sacred anywhere, even in the smallest thing, you will have found the sacred within yourself. That is the first lesson, before all others. If you have not learned this lesson, reaching for another will …
As a driver, you choose where you are going (usually within the confines of paved roadways), when to get there (depending on traffic), and how stressed you wish to be over the process (all options available). But as a driver, your field of vision is drawn in: to a narrow strip of pavement ahead, to …
Evolution is a process that most of us associate with a geological time scale — the slow elucidation of life over the last 3.5 billion years. We also tend to assume that the most recent signs of continuing evolution must be happening in species with short life spans and rapid reproductive rates. A team of …
It is not the Sun that turns around us: the Sun doesn't come to shine down upon us. In fact, it is we who turn our faces toward the Sun. An important distinction. The sun was not made for us. We were made, and the Sun exists. From a birthright to a gift. From a …
As there is a category of facts to which our senses are our best available but very imperfect guides, as there is a category of truths which we seek by the keen but still imperfect light of our reason, so according to the mystic, there is a category of more subtle truths, which surpass the …
It is interesting that, in a country whose infrastructure is far less consistently developed than that of our own digital nation, I had far greater success in posting thoughts and impressions to this journal than I do now that I am home. Part of it is, of course, that the sheer volume of experiences, their …
I expect that, having passed my bedtime by several hours now, I am exempt from morning yoga. There are some things you really must not allow to be pushed, though — the least effort is spent maintaining a ritual, then the ritual helps maintain everything else (such as reasonable sleeping hours and subsequent mental and …
Mrs. Rat Mrs. Rat was a good business woman. She ran a successful vegetable stall by the roadside. It was called "Cosmic Vegetables". Sometimes she would take the day off, and then hang up a somewhat curious sign which read: Closed. We have no mistakes today. This is due to the absence of mismanagement. …
Look: this beautiful dream.
The grace of going away is that your eyes are refreshed for when you return. What you see once in your daily, then see again and again, gains a transparency, loses its edges, so that after a time it is no longer visible at all. This is to be expected: our senses are used to …