“Love says ‘I am everything.’ Wisdom says ‘I am nothing.‘ Between the two, my life flows,” taught the great spiritual teacher Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. How can this be? Spoiler alert: flow is key. Science and reason and our own subjective experience tell us we are limited. Yet we don’t always feel limited. In the faceContinue reading “Everything and Nothing”
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The Power in Obstacles
Last week, a group of us talked about what happens when we face obstacles and difficult situations. We agreed that no one escapes such things, and that often what happens is inside is fear, which has a powerful undertow. Signs at ocean beaches warn swimmers not to try to fight their way out of aContinue reading “The Power in Obstacles”
Merry Christmas 2011
Merry Christmas! So much to do and here I am again, sitting on my sofa, sipping coffee and watching the sky grow light. Already it seems brighter to me. This is my very flawed and subjective view, of course. Yet it does seem brighter. This body and heart came to me from the most ancientContinue reading “Merry Christmas 2011”
A Life With Heart
What does it mean to live fully? To live a life with heart? The lesson from the power outage is still with me. Even as I go about living my ordinary, electrically illuminated, computer active life, I find myself remembering there can be a deeper quality to life. In the darkness and stillness, my sleepContinue reading “A Life With Heart”
Love as You Are Loved
I’ve been touched by the ardor and range of responses to my last post. Somehow, a collective journey was made from a description of the joy that can come from sharing stories about our common humanity to an exchange about the reality of evil and God and the nature of love. One person wroteContinue reading “Love as You Are Loved”
Tracy Cochran 