Meditations for the Heart, Mind, and Spirit

Equanimity is not zen but zombie-like, a state of inner calm and composure at the ghastly cost of authentic being and becoming...

Intimacy is tender immersion, in a moment, a place, a relation; with or without love, with or without intention, but always through a connection luring us to the deep...

Activities elicit identities. While working, a professional demeanor, keenly attuned to rules of etiquette, ethics, propriety, and the like. While under the covers with a lover, a different animal emerges, sensual and primal, carnal and tactile. While walking alone on the beach, a more pensive side perhaps, questioning, wondering. While enjoying a meal with good friends, a fun-loving one may come to the fore, toying and teasing, joking and jesting, a child within now out to p

Mystery might be the only real certainty. We cannot fully trust ourselves. How many times have we felt completely confident of such and such only to later discover we were self-deceived? We are often most ignorant of what is closest to us, Nietzsche noticed. There is so much we do not know. And there is so much we will never know before time swallows us whole. What lies ahead for us is largely unknown. Where we come from is also unknown. Origins and destinies are dark. And fo