Finding Gratitude in Blessing – interview with CultureRISE
“When something goes completely askew in your day – some unexpected event knocks down your plans, and you too also – burst into blessing, for life is teaching you a lesson and the very event you feel unwanted you yourself called forth, so as to learn the lesson...
The Ice Cream That Cannot Be Flavored
From Holy Rascals by Rabbi Rami Shapiro, with permission Walk into an ice cream shop and order a scoop of ice cream. The clerk will ask which flavor ice cream you prefer, but you don’t want a flavor, you want ice cream. The clerk is stymied. Of all the flavors on the...
Listening Hearts (excerpt)
A message written or spoken and sent from the heart but received with the mind, will likely be not understood, or completely misinterpreted. They don’t speak the same language. We don’t need more talking heads on the planet right now. We each have a divinely renewable...
My first “mystical” experience
More and more in the literature and on internet one encounters stories of such “mystical” experiences. I put the word between quotes because there is no universally accepted definition of the term. For me, it means a state of exceptional clarity where the...Thoughts to ponder
