You must change your life, but there is still difficulty in knowing what that means. It is fundamental, but it does not require us to become fundamentalists. The opposite is more likely true: a changed life does not involve vows of abstinence or commitment to a cause so much as it means a re-orientation to …
No one longs for what he or she already has. But I think recovering drunks try. We press our faces against the grindstone of acceptance. The strange thing is we find fulfillment, joy, freedom. Who would have thought it’d take a bunch of boozy eyed spinsters, half honest lawyers, biker babes and criminals to find …
There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it. If we hurt, if we know loneliness, if we feel shame or alienation or abandonment in our heart, we’ve simply forgotten the invisible, or started to say it isn’t true because it isn’t solid. Apology shocks us out of our empirical, ego …
The heat of the day blasts me inside, but I like the staleness and silence of air conditioning even less that I like 100 degree weather. But that is not the issue, either. The fact is simply irritation, discontent, discomfort. I am unhappy when I disparage god. But I am dishonest if I don’t speak …
