2020 – Step 108: Indirect Discovery

“When your body is crucified with the disease, ascend in the consciousness of health.  When your mind is crucified with trials and temptations, arise in the sphere of self-control.  When you are entombed in sorrow, resurrect yourself into happiness.  When you are buried beneath restlessness, resurrect your mind into continued calmness in deep meditative silence.   …

2020 – Step 103: Sunday Blessings – Life After Death

"Expiate - (verb) - to extinguish guilt incurred by; to make amends for."  Walking on quicksand.  What if Jesus didn't die to 'save me' - but instead - Jesus died to "show me HOW to save myself?"  What if all consumer purchases were made on a sliding scale based on income?  What if actions matched …

2020 – Step 83: Spiral Nest – Small Cause – Big Effect

"Bridled Wisdom - (noun) - wisdom contained in a fence of self-congratulations." ~Marshmellow Message Without distance - personal values can be hard to see.  There can be no strength without weakness.  In the 'rush-rush-hurry-hurry' of life - there is hardly any time for self-reflection - especially regarding commitments.  Are they worth it or not?  For …

Step 365: The Next Level

"Panacea - (noun) - A mythical remedy for all illness and disease - a solution for  all problems and difficulties." Is suffering created by lack of insight?  To find truth - Human needs a frame of reference to compare.  Patience reveals Big-Picture-Perspective.  Chaos and Order.  If there is a battle - it is won Within.  …

Step 289: Déjà Vu

"This is the greatest damn thing about the Universe, that we can know so much, recognize so much, dissect, do everything, and we can't grasp it."  ~Henry Miller Thirty years ago - when the Berlin Wall fell - the dream/goal was a borderless world.  We're still confronting the issue of borders.  Information is better than …