The Pulse of Spirit

When it comes to living a happy, fulfilled life, what is it that trips people up? One of the biggest factors I notice is the way people handle their own personal needs. We all have needs at many levels. The

The creative process moves in a spiral. There is a cycle to it, just as there is a cycle to the seasons. In that sense, it moves in circles. But the cycle does not come back around to the same

It is so easy to invoke divine presence. When we give up on trying to find and understand the Divine with the intellect, we can acknowledge the presence of the wonder of being that is with us. We can deliberately

One of my favorite poems is Tired of Speaking Sweetly,by Hafiz. In it, he says that if the Beloved had His choice, he would be “ripping from your grip all those toys in the world that bring you no joy” and

Humanity as a whole is facing the imperative to grow up. That might seem to be a harsh assessment, but if you step back and look at the behavior of the body of humanity over centuries, even up to today,

A critical factor in living a fulfilled life is the knowledge of what changes and what does not, and the difference between the two. Knowing what does not change, and being with what does not change, we are in position

As human beings, we are made in the image and likeness of love. And then something happens. However you construe what goes wrong in people’s experience, something does happen for most people so that love doesn’t have a chance to

The universal power of love is within all people. That universal power manifests as remarkable intelligence throughout creation. We observe that intelligence at work in the natural world and through the wisdom of our own bodies. We see streaks of