Sacred beginnings are not based on a knowledge of our destination. They are driven by a desire to become more at peace than we are today.… Read More

The awareness of what we share with one another doesn’t lessen what we each have. It expands it.… Read More

The path of patience, effort and challenges may seem longer than one based on shortcuts and easy choices. In the end, it is shorter in arriving at our goal: knowledge of self and our place in the world.… Read More

To move from fear to awe is to free ourselves of an isolating focus on self, loss and inadequacy and to embrace the power of wonder, mystery and hope.… Read More

To breathe unconstricted from fears and pains of the past and anxieties about the future is the breath of redemption.… Read More

Pharaoh does not know Joseph, the one who saved Egypt from destruction. Israelite reunion and elevation quickly devolve to namelessness, to enslavement…to death. … Read More

A resilient life is one that returns again and again after loses and setbacks to the daily tasks of life. In the course of doing so, we expand our connection to that which is everlasting.… Read More

It is not those who profess perfection who create a better world. It is those who bear witness to their own imperfections who are the builders of civilization.… Read More

Memories are constructed framings of what we have experienced. Our brains can reframe those which hold us back from fulfilling ourselves. Shattering can be the beginning of hope.… Read More

The way of love has no certainty of a specific outcome. It is a path marked by vulnerability and risk. The promise it offers, though, is beyond measure.… Read More