Spiritual Tide

I would accomplish so much more by gathering my mind to one point. This is the definition of concentration - gathering the attention to one point. My attention is scattered, I have to keep gathering like the squirrel outside scurrying for nuts. The attention must be gathered over and over and brought back to […]

On a November day, dark and damp as a womb, a steady rain falls. Along the river valley great fists of clouds hang all day. All day it rains in November. The water fills the rivers, the gullies, the tire tracks in my driveway. It splashes on the slate roof and soothes my dreams.
My dreams […]

The senses tell an incomplete story. They are limited and often misleading. We do not see what is before our eyes or we do not hear what is being said. With misleading information supplied by the senses, we draw erroneous conclusions.
Because seeing they see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
The senses […]

I do see how my difficulties have helped me expand into a higher plane, and how my difficulties have been necessary for this expansion. But, I did not see this looking at the difficulties from the same plane where they were created. I had to climb to higher ground, above the ego plane. Only by […]

These far greater realities are what I aspire to. The self swims in the ocean of Spirit, yet knows it not. The bottled ego must escape, rise above its likes and dislikes, and merge into its vaster self of Spirit. When I am swimming in Spirit I clearly see the misery caused by ego likes […]