Last week, we heard the news that Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain had committed suicide. There has been an outpouring of confusion, compassion and grief. Why did two successful people, who appeared to have everything to live for, take their own lives? Were the signs there? What can we do to become a more loving, …
I prayed “Make me a vessel of the Divine.” God laughed. “That is like the rose asking me to make it a flower.” Does the rose need my assistance to become a flower? Which good works must it do to attain flowerhood? All the rose can do is bloom, at its appointed hour Unashamed to …
Yesterday, it occurred to me that if my soul is a spark of the Divine and has come into this life for a specific purpose and if, also, along the way I have developed an egoic personality that has been conditioned by my childhood influences, upbringing, education and what was expected of me, then this …
Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back …