One of movie history’s great lines comes from Jack Nicholson’s Marine Corps character in A Few Good Men, when he barks, “You can’t handle the truth!” He’s right. We can’t. Well, we can, but that requires a turn of the worm, a willingness to…
What a peculiar prison sentence is this thing we call life. Each of us appears to have been born into captivity, a death sentence hanging over us, only the actual date of our ‘execution’ unknown. We are shackled to these bodies – bodies that…
At dinner the other night came a conversation about the importance of experiencing all that life has to offer before, you know, it’s too late. The basic idea being that we need to be out there scaling Mt. Everest or racing elephants in the…
“There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now.” – The Buddha Have you noticed that ‘you’ really never age? That there is a timeless quality to you? In periods of silence it can be so obvious. The…
“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald It’s easy to blame the loneliness of the spiritual path on the reluctance (or refusal) of others to join in the journey. But it’s more…
“Die Religion … ist das Opium des Volkes.” – Karl Marx Karl Marx’s famous dictum that “religion is the opiate of the masses” is based on the idea that we humans, haunted by fears of our own mortality and apparent insignificance, need some kind…