Becoming A Sun Blogs

This Week’s Quotation: To Dr. Bill Bahan, whom I met in 1969 as a young man of the Sixties looking for an answer. His suit and Coke-bottle glasses made me think he was one of the squarest people I had ever met. Then his humor and his vision saved my life. To Martin Cecil, the...

This Week’s Quotation: This step is radical because it is the movement out of the belief that you have to change. Think about all the efforts you have made to grow, to learn, and to form new habits or behaviors. Think about all the discipline you have applied in your life to become a better...

This Week’s Quotation: And you will be heldIn heaven’s love,As the light of the starsEnters each earthly door,Opening youTo the sacred realityOf your inmost Being. Becoming a Sun, p. 128 We Will Open My first attempt at writing Becoming a Sun was a failure. I wrote 50 pages and decided it didn’t say what I...

This Week’s Quotation: A true sovereign—someone who offers real service to their world—brings both love and truth to the realm. Most people are afraid of them both. Love is what makes all people and all of Creation the same. We are part of one reality, animated by one universal power. There is a deep-seated fear...

This Week’s Quotation: Just as the sun of our solar system activates all the elements of Planet Earth, the fire of fusion in you has a profound effect on the elements of your world. As it heats the oceans of the world, sets the winds in motion, and warms the earth, the sun makes all...

This Week’s Quotation: This cross of life is evocative for us as human beings because it reveals a dynamic that is so real and so filled with great mystery. Our flesh has the power and pattern of the universe entering into it and then emanating through it into the world. The movie Titanic offers a...

This Week’s Quotation: Fire in the belly is the motivation and empowerment for action. The phrase portrays the dynamic between the spiritual and the physical in human experience. Fire is a symbol for the cosmic force that burns in the spiritual aspect of your human capacity. The belly is synonymous with the physical aspect of...

This Week’s Quotation: It really comes down to this. Generosity is the source of all virtue. As you are connected to the generosity of all Being that dwells within you, you are nourished from within. The generosity at your core feeds all the rest of you. It emanates from you. There is pleasure in that...

This Week’s Quotation: Touching the sacred, it is easy to see that there has been a veil that has hidden the experience of it from human beings. People long to experience it. They sacrifice much to catch even a glimpse of it through religion and spirituality, through art, and through nature. Consciousness is the veil....

This Week’s Quotation: What I notice is that when the grace of God is present through a person, those around them recalculate their lives. They sort their lives out in a different way. Perhaps they have been trying to sort it out in desperation, in a way where there did not seem to be any...