The Pulse of Spirit

The second of Don Miguel Ruiz’s Four Agreements is “Don’t take anything personally.” He says this about what comes of that practice: There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.  The Dalai

I heard from Moira McDougall in Christchurch, New Zealand, today, reporting on the shootings in two mosques. Moira says this: Dear David! Our city has been badly shaken. Many people are “shell-shocked” and slowly coming to realize that we are

My first book, Becoming a Sun: Emotional and Spiritual Intelligence for a Happy, Fulfilling Life, has just been published in softcover. I saw the first copy on Saturday, March 9, the last day of my 4-day workshop by the same

In our own human experience we can participate in the structure of Reality through thought. Real thinking is the marriage of real thought with the Reality of Love that energizes the creation of anything worthwhile. Thinking a thought without love

(From a Wednesday Evening Service at Sunrise Ranch) We are building an online platform. We had expected to name it Regeneration Earth. But somebody right down the street in Boulder has a similar name, so we thought we had better

In my morning meditations before leaving for British Columbia this past Tuesday, I was thinking of the phrase the evolutionary urge. I found a fascinating article by two scientists with the formidable title “Role of Evolutionary Urge in Epigenetics and

A group of us just finished Primal Spirituality 4: Grace. It was a remarkable time. It was the conclusion of a cycle of Primal Spirituality 1 through 4, and there was a sense of it all coming together, truly coming

Recently we’ve been considering the end of loneliness. I wrote a Pulse of Spirit on the theme and we have been talking about it at Sunrise Ranch. And then yesterday, we had a live-stream video call for all of the

Robert’s Frost’s poem “Mending Wall” opens with this line: Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That wants it down. I could say “Elves” to him… In the Pulse of Spirit last week I addressed The End of Loneliness.

Could it be that at the root of issues we face personally and as a culture is an unsuspected culprit, lurking in the shadows of the human experience—loneliness? Around the world, governmental and non-profit leaders, researchers and journalists have identified