Intelligences are atoms of perception — they know and they see and they are pure, in short they are God. How then are Souls to be made? How then are these sparks which are God to have identity given them — so as ever to possess a bliss peculiar to each one’s individual existence. How,…

[Creative myth-making] restores to existence the quality of adventure, at once shattering and reintegrating the fixed, already known, in the sacrificial creative fire of the becoming thing that is nothing at all but life, not as it will be or should be, as it was or as it never will be, but as it is,…

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. The opposite of will is not indecision…but being uninvolved, detached, unrelated to the significant events. The interrelation of love and will inheres in the fact that both terms describe a person in the process of reaching out, moving toward the world, seeking to affect others or…

New Year 2026, paper collage Strange as it sounds, steady, patient growth in freedom is probably the most difficult task of all, requiring the greatest courage. Thus if the term “hero” is used in this discussion at all, it must refer not to the special acts of outstanding persons, but to the heroic element potentially…

A ritual is a discipline for uniting your mind with what you are doing, and what you are doing is mysterious. – Joseph Campbell When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are…

Now creating, actualizing one’s possibilities, always involves negative as well as positive aspects. It always involves destroying the status quo, destroying old patterns within oneself, progressively destroying what one has clung to from childhood on, and creating new and original forms and ways of living. If one does not do this, one is refusing to…

In yesterday’s post, I introduced an idea called “The Four Principles,” or four principles for living. They are: alignment, sensitivity, creativity, and mystery. It occurs to me that, instead of four principles for living, it might be better to think of them as four principles for human-centered living (as opposed to, say, machine-centered). I like…

My meditation this morning was rather fruitful. Although, what I am calling a “meditation” was more like me sitting in my living room, sipping coffee, and watching the lights glitter on the Christmas tree before the sun came up. The first idea that came to mind was that of alignment. Alignment is a concept I…