You Are a Radiant Gift
There is a certain clarity that has arrived from knowing you You are a radiant giftAnd do not realize that you areThe Breath of Life that speaks of profound joy and happinessInnocent, yet lost in the world outside yourselfYou long to be seen, yet you hide yourself I see you because I am youThere will […]
Tell Me the Story of Your Heart
The Story of Your Heart Tell me the story of your heartIt is much different than the other stories you have toldAnd deeper…Its springs from the hillsOff in the forestAnd flows to the valleyThrough the coltsfoot, the fern and the wild ginger rootThrough the bubbling poolWhere the whitetail deer quench their thirst,To the deep pondWhere […]
The Man with a Lexus Who Awakened
A number of years ago, I owned a spiritual retreat centre business called the Ecology Retreat Centre. It’s still near Orangeville in a beautiful rural area of Southern Ontario. There are a few cabins, a beautiful lodge, a dining hall and meeting spaces for groups that want to run their own retreats and seminars. Many […]
What the Gasping Man Taught Me About Life
In November 2012, I spent 7 days in a hospital room diagnosed with a sub-arachnoid hemorrhage (broken blood vessel in my head) There was an older fellow about 75 in my room, who’d insist on having a smoke every evening against doctor’s orders. “I’ve worked hard in a factory all my life and I deserve […]
What Do You Do When You Get Fed-up (with Your Mind)
If you are like me there are times when I just get fed up. I get fed up with rush hour traffic, Donald Trump, the bills I have to pay, the people that take too long at the bank teller when I am in a rush, the dirty dishes that always have to be done, […]
A Prayer for Those With a Broken Heart
I recently talked to a good friend who told me how her heart had been broken by a former partner. She told me it took her 2 years to recover from the grief and how even now it is hard for her to love again. Her story deeply affected me because I know that many […]
A Truth That Will Not Set You Free in Relationships
There is a new-age truism: “I am not responsible for others reactions or triggers” This is often used to justify or defend one person’s effect on another. It is true that we cannot make anyone feel a particular way. The way they react to what we do is their choice. The emotion that is triggered […]
Hugging the Porcupine or the Perils of an Open Heart
There is a common fallacy in the spiritual world that we should always approach others with a loving heart and be open to them no matter how they are. After all others are divine in nature are they not? There is a half-truth to this. All individuals are non-physical in their true nature but at […]
When Mr/Ms Right Turns into Mr/Ms Needs to Be Right
Everyone wants to meet Mr/Ms Right and when we do we are in heaven. There is a rainbow in every dark cloud and beauty in every sullen face we see. All that we see is the beloved’s visage and we feel their presence as a constant wave of bliss in our hearts. The romance phase […]
Getting the Inner Critic on your Side
Some of us have one or more troublesome inner voices that frequently put us down in our daily grind. It’s like we have a negative commentator in the audience in the theater of our lives: “You’ll never succeed”, “Who do you think you are thinking so highly of yourself?” “You’re an idiot” “Control yourself” “Just […]