Spiritual Tide

“The greatest love is born of utility. We do not love anything that is useless or harmful, or that causes us permanent suffering. If you serve another with deeds of kindness, or good advice, or protection – that is “usefulness.” Although love is born in human relations and thrives on the law of mutual usefulness, […]

Another aspect of my new direction is I won’t be working for the little self (ego and its narrow self-interests) anymore. I’ll be working for my larger self, the Divine self in all. I realize in the end how unsatisfactory it is to work only for personal gain.
We are meant to work for God in […]

There is a new life direction beginning. One I can’t quite see yet, but I feel it within me - the tide surging in. A new sense of power and purpose, clarity and balance, in tune with Divine will. It has taken a long time to uncover the light which was there all along. It […]

I learned a valuable lesson this past week when I forsook my inner commitment and let an outer crisis take over.
No matter what disturbances occur outside if I don’t keep my foremost duty of inner communion with God, than everyone (myself included) suffers. If I’m not connected to my innermost place of healing than I cannot […]

Are not the difficult labors of our lives full of dark hours? And what has consciousness come to anyway, so far, that is better than these light-filled bodies? Goldenrod, Mary Oliver.
I take a hike and I’m in love with everything: the moss covered rock, the slanted light falling on rhododendron and glistening on a spider […]