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

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.

Western intellectual culture is not really interested in peace, happiness, or fulfillment.

I love that what to me is a small unappealing object is a huge glorious feast for the birds around me.

Or "How to Solve All the World's Problems"

I'm making a little book called Just So Many Words: A Dictionary of Life-Giving Definitions. The premise is that no definition can...

There isn’t a single boundary that we couldn’t change or that doesn’t disappear on closer examination.

We need to know happiness intimately before we are qualified to help others find it.

If there's such thing as a scientifically valid sampling of significant things that happened in the world today, "the news" is not it.