from Journey of the Universe by Brian Thomas Swimme & Mary Evelyn Tucker For stars, creativity depends on maintaining a state of disequilibrium with respect to surrounding space. It is the dynamic tension between gravity and fusion that enables the…
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. ” - Søren Kierkegaard I’ve always prayed. For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a conversation with Life…
When I was little, I wished so hard to discover that I had secret magical powers. This was long before the Harry Potter series was written, but the beginning of that story captured pretty much exactly what I dreamed throughout…
I love a good burning bowl ceremony, especially around the beginning of the year. The prospect of purging all undesirable attitudes and conditions is really attractive — write that stuff down and set it on fire! Such dramatic ritual can…
I declare — there are things in the world that terrify me, and we’ve got what it takes to face them all. I declare that a holy alignment with Divine Harmony, Intelligence, Love, Beauty, Joy, and Plenty is the most…
The affirmative approach we take in the Science of Mind philosophy and practice is uplifting and can be tremendously empowering. Our prayers are positive, and we speak them with creative authority. We call forth new possibilities, refusing to be bogged…
David Whyte writes of Joy as: “The sheer intoxicating beauty of the world inhabited as an edge between what we previously thought was us and what we thought was other than us.” This definition feels nearly perfect: Pushing the thin…
A few months ago, I picked up a book of fiction by Joy Williams, called Ninety-Nine Stories of God. It is a collection of short stories, very very short stories — some only a few sentences long. They are alternately…
