God Eyes
As I drove past each day I was unable to shield my eyes, unable to look away.
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Category: Spiritual Practice
How to Love Anyone (Even White Supremacists)
When it comes to religion, I’m a believer that each of us is born with an innate spirituality, and religion might best be understood as the language we use to try to understand that experience. Different religions, to me, are like different languages—each carrying a unique cadence and poetry—circling around an ineffable spiritual experience without ever quite touching it.
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How Prayer Changes Your Brain
Prayer rituals and meditation can help us reach those higher, more advanced levels of self-awareness and consciousness—and literally change our brain.
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Keep A Good Thought
Working in animal rescue, you learn that everyone espouses disorganized religion.
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THE RIVER IS PLAYING A SYMPHONY
At home when I meditate, I usually focus on the breath but when I am here, I alter that process. After a brief time focused on breath, I switch to simply taking in what the river offers. She tells me stories. She shares her mood, flow, and spirit. Most especially, she shares her symphony of sound. Like so many humans, I rely primarily on my vision to take things in. When meditating on her shores with eyes closed, hearing becomes the primary mode of perception. The first time I did this I was astonished with the way the sound rose up to meet me.
Read MoreThe Braided Way
The Braided Way is a framework to see every faith tradition as a strand, braided into a larger whole of spiritual awareness. In the Braided Way, combining spiritual practice from various faiths allow us to explore sacred experience and wonder in forms that resonate with our personal spiritual needs and sacred intuitions. In today’s culture, many people shun religious dogma, but yearn for spiritual connection. The Braided Way allows the ceremonies and practices of multiple faiths to be available without the confinements of cultural dogma.