Sunday Talks

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” - John Muir Travis and I went to see a documentary at the Guild last week: John Muir, Unruly Mystic. The…

Meister Eckhart, 13th-century mystic, wrote: All beings are words of God. God’s music, God’s art. Sacred books we are, for the Infinite camps in our souls. Every act reveals God and expands God’s Being. I know that may be hard…

The world can be terribly discouraging. Systemic injustice, institutionalized inequality, corruption and greed, lies and spin and manipulation are a freakin’ drag and drain. Most people I know, myself included, are feeling run-down and spent these days. Some of this…

“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…

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…

I looked up the origin of the phrase “true blue.”  Some say it refers to the endless blue sky above us, the blue yonder.  Others suggest that it might have had something to do with the purity of noble lineage,…