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Category Archives: Spirituality

The Ten Thousand Voices….

August 6, 2026

  ““And do you know,” continued Siddhartha, “what word it [the river] pronounces when one is successful in hearing all …

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Zen East and West….

August 3, 2026

  Zen’s story goes back centuries, but it is a simple one.    Buddhism was birthed in India and it …

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Relativity… And The Omphalos Cafe….

July 28, 2026

  “And since in human traditional rites also a certain psychological readiness to respond to certain specific sign stimuli is …

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“Shine On You Crazy Diamonds!”–Pink Floyd

July 14, 2026

  What would I do if I were starting out on my journey today and not forty years ago?    …

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Moving Day …..

July 10, 2026

  Any semi-serious reader who has moved knows it is a weighty matter.    Books are heavy.    When you’re …

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Simplicity….

July 7, 2026

  We construct our own complexity cages and then obediently step inside and close the door on ourselves. Once inside …

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A Quiet Haven….

July 6, 2026

  Call us lone wolves. Sometimes Steppenwolves.    Lately I’ve come across a new term: Sigma males.    We’re not …

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Have You A Song to Sing?….

July 5, 2026

  You hear Saint Louis before you see him. He wanders the lower Plateau with his dog Cookie singing his …

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Nostalgia! … Or Arrested Development?

July 2, 2026

  The year must have been ‘78 or ‘79 and I was fifteen years old.    The costumed and face-painted …

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Solitude….

June 30, 2026

  “—But I have need of solitude, that is to say recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free …

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