Truth – Reflective Life

Making the Impossible Possible

Healthy spirituality involves overcoming barriers to connect deeply with all forms of existence, fostering relationships beyond fear, and promoting understanding to heal the world.

Existing in Paradox

The post explores spiritual paradoxes, emphasizing that personal fulfillment is linked to embracing everyday reality and collective healing while recognizing the interconnectedness of individuals and communities.

Enigmas of the Spiritual Life

In spirituality, paradoxes guide us to a deeper encounter with transcendent realities. We are constantly changing, yet fundamentally the same. Confronting limitations leads to self-discovery. Perception shapes our experience, but truth transcends it, making transformation perpetual.

Traversing the Multiverse

The multiverse exists and we can traverse it.

Spirituality and Politics: What’s the Big Deal?

A spiritual politics attempts to get behind the slogans, rhetoric, and polarization, and works to see the faces of the people who hold various opposing positions.

What You Bring is What You Get

It’s so nice to feel special. But what if that’s not where the truth of who we are lies?

Embracing the Great Clarification

What has the pandemic taught us? Here are three lessons to consider.

Human Perfection: A Real Possibility?

Perfection is unattainable when it is grounded in something outside us. Yet when we focus on changing our feelings, attitudes, and actions, the picture changes dramatically.

What’s the Point of Anything, or, Everything?

Spirituality is often connected to questions of ultimate meaning. But who knows how to describe it? Here’s one possibility of several as to how it might be done.

May our Lives Embrace the World

Earlier in life I thought it was good to belong to the elite. I knew what I believed, and I knew I was saved–others be damned–in my mind they probably were. Unfortunately, I look back on that time and realize I exemplified the worst of religion. Then I started making friends with people who didContinue reading “May our Lives Embrace the World”