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The Heart of the Matter

This Week’s Quotation: “Your heart belongs to the sun—to the radiant center of your Being. When your heart turns toward the sun rising in you, it responds easily and naturally. Any time that has happened, you have been lifted up by your feeling response.

The Village Is Not Lost

This Week’s Quotation: The Village Is Not Lost What if the village is one of those new paradigms already being nurtured within and through us? When I hear the word “village,” I imagine something ancient: elders gathered beneath a tree, children listening, artisans creating, healers tending, and each person offering what is uniquely theirs to

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The Door Is Selflessness

This Week’s Quotation: I have a simpler way of describing the door to another world of experience. The door is selflessness. And there is no real selflessness without selfless service to a higher reality. I am not talking about charitable

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There Is Life in the Darkness

This Week’s Quotation: All too often, the human experience is utterly too predictable. That’s what happens when a person is out of touch with their own darkness and tries to create a life in the image of what is already

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Internal Explosions

This Week’s Quotation: For weeks, it felt like a bomb had detonated inside me. As I saw it, there was nothing I could do about what had happened. There was nothing to say that would do any good—no public statement

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The Sacred Veil

This Week’s Quotation: A spiritually asleep person is satisfied with an opaque veil—a state of awareness in which there is little consciousness of the sacred. So many who consider themselves spiritually aware settle on a translucent veil—like a window made

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The Already-Existing Field

This Week’s Quotation: There is an already-existing field that you and I did not have to invent. It does not depend or rely on us in any way. Our experience as human beings relies on what we do, but that

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Reciprocity

This Week’s Quotation: If reciprocity is not sanctioned in an organizational setting, leaders are put on a pedestal and then knocked down by others. The process might begin with adulation. If the responsibility of leadership is not shared, the time

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