Poetry for People 
Who Don't Read Poetry. Spirituality for Me
and Maybe You.

Spinning gold. This is what artists do. Straw to gold. Shit to flowers. Sorrow seen through.   Being polite? That’s a human thing. God...

Anxiety is resistance to the call of living fully. It is a refusal to stop and breathe. To look around and to look within. Anxiety is...

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It’s important, I think, to distinguish between morality and virtue.   Morality is a set of rules. Rules are abstractions imposed on...

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I think it’s helpful to distinguish between drama and excitement. I think the more fundamental human need is excitement. Drama is just...

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The wolf isn’t attracted by hard work or struggle or careful planning.

Spirituality, like existentialism and atheism, faces naked reality. The difference is that spirituality faces more of reality.

Western culture emphasizes individualism more than most other cultures. But it's still a watered-down version. Call it Individuality Lite.

Most people don’t consciously register they are doing this difficult work of sorting through swarms of often clashing ideas.

We can even allow the thought that we’re failing miserably at meditation.

In a nutshell, we live in a nutshell.

To speak about the greatest possible reality, logic itself tells us that we have to sometimes speak nonlogically.

You can’t fight something and see it clearly at the same time.

True spirituality manifests itself powerfully in our tie-our-shoelaces, wipe-our-noses, everyday reality. Otherwise, why should we care?

No Western philosopher was a painter.

We are each the sole monarch of a kingdom...

Someone recently emailed me a post by the musician/songwriter Nick Cave, and I felt compelled to write a response.

We find the essence of who we are in the activities we do for no reason.