Dear readers, My internet is down, so I hope that you will forgive me for reposting one of my previous holiday blogs. As soon as I'm back online, I'll create some brand new content just for you. via A tale of two [kinds of] Santas
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When I Grow Up…
A few months ago, I decided to take a hiatus from blogging. I did so, in part, to make final edits to my book, Faith without Labels: a Guide to Eclectic Spirituality. But this time out also allowed me to reassess what right livelihood means at this point in my life. In his first sermon …
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Farewell
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. -- Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby If you're one of my loyal readers, you may have noticed that I haven't posted for a while. I got the flu five weeks ago and it turned my world upside down. For several days, I was certain …
A Message from the Dalai Lama
In my last post, 2017 Post-Mortem Review, I reflected on what I accomplished -- and what I didn't -- from my 2017 vision board. Today, I'd like to encourage my readers to revisit their 2017 and 2018 intentions again based on the Dalai Lama's refreshingly simple and direct guidelines. During his 2018 New Year's day …
2017 Post-Mortem Review
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something. -- Neil Gaiman Last year, instead of …
A Hanukkah Invitation
One of my dreams is to go to graduate school to study comparative religions. (Actually, the dream entails attending Harvard Divinity School, which probably won't happen in this lifetime unless I win the lottery.) I love studying different religions and incorporating elements that appeal to me into my belief system. I'm sorry to say that …
Answering the Unanswered !
Rahul Yuvi reached out and asked me to reblog this post. He is a fellow seeker and meditator and, as such, has some interesting thoughts and insights about meditation. I hope that you enjoy this post and are able to incorporate some of his ideas into your meditation practice if you have one. And if …
“There was no room at the inn, but God came anyway.”*
I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a way, they were certainly saints. And they were saints in that most effective and telling way: sanctified by leading ordinary lives in a completely supernatural manner, sanctified by obscurity, by …
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