TODAY IS NATIONAL CHEESEBURGER DAY! WHEN YOU ARE ONE with the sense of presence, then whatever is necessary by way of spiritual knowledge will sprout by itself. TODAY I LEARNED about a term called a “glimmer.” Which is the opposite of a trigger. Glimmers are those moments in … Read more

TO A MIND THAT IS STILL . . . THE WHOLE WORLD SURRENDERS.            CHAUNG TZU      SUFFERING is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons. MIGUEL de UNAMUNO KEN KESEY. 1935-2001. “One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest” YOU can’t … Read more

LAUREN BACALL. 1924-2014.  “To Have and Have Not”.                          IMAGINATION IS THE HIGHEST KITE ONE CAN FLY.                    WE LIVE IN AN AGE OF MEDIOCRITY.        YOU LEARN to rise above a lot of … Read more

ONCE YOU SEE the ego for what it is, it becomes much easier to remain nonreactive toward it. You don’t take it personally anymore. There is no complaining, blaming, accusing or making wrong. Nobody is wrong. It is the ego in someone, that’s all. Compassion arises when you recognize that all are suffering from the same … Read more

B. J. PALMER 1882-1961.   CHIROPRACTOR.                                   “The Unknown Story of B.J.Palmer and Chiropractic” “THE HISTORY OF CHIROPRACTIC began in 1895 when Daniel David Palmer of Iowa performed the first chiropractic adjustment on a partially deaf janitor, Harvey Willard. Palmer … Read more

J.B.PRIESTLEY.   1894-1984.   “1929’s The Good Companions”.               TO SHOW A CHILD what once delighted you, to find the child’s delight added to your own — this is happiness. THE MORE WE ELABORATE our means of communication, the less we communicate.                 TO … Read more

Q: How can our words be a chant and incense unto the people? The answer . . . Go down deeper than all sounds, to the very heart of the earth and there you shall be alone with Him who walks upon the Milky Way.  KHALIL GIBRAN. “The Garden of the Prophet” THE LONGER I LIVE … Read more

JAMES THOMSON    1700-1748.    “The Seasons”,                                                                         “The Castle of Innocence”.  INGRATITUDE IS TREASON TO MANKIND.         … Read more

WHAT IF our religion was each other. If our practice was our life. If prayer, our words. What if the temple was the Earth. If forests were our church. If holy water — the rivers, lakes and ocean. What if meditation was our relationships. If the teacher was life. If wisdom was self-knowledge. If love was … Read more

KNOWING OTHERS IS WISDOM, KNOWING YOURSELF IS ENLIGHTENMENT.             LAO TZU DEATH is the last enemy: once we’ve got past that I think everything will be alright.      ALICE THOMAS ELLIS  THE ANSWER TO OLD AGE is to keep one’s mind busy & to go on with one’s life … Read more