The Remarkable Old Woman

Before the seminar on Saturday, I gave a talk on Thursday before.  After the lecture, my host Helga, brought this woman up to meet me and to ask a question. She speaks no English, is close to 70, thin, very withdrawn, and...

The Power of the Word

Most everyone has heard the phrase “In the beginning was the word, and the word was God.”, but few have any idea what it means. Here is a story that may illustrate the deeper meaning. This story begins in...

Anger and Inner Trust

A few months after I moved to Germany in the summer of 1996, I was living in Frankfurt. I walked past a street and some flute music caught my attention. I continued down the street. At the end of the block, I turned and...

Greed is Expensive!

It was around 2001 when I got an email offering millions of dollars to help out someone who had been wronged. It was years before the frequency of receiving an email offering large sums of money was common. So this was new...

Being Born is Weird Enough!

My wife and I just moved from the ashram in Miami Florida to the mother ashram in Espanola New Mexico. It was 1975 and we spent six weeks driving across the country enjoying ourselves along the way. We stayed in many...

MM, it’s time to die!

About a year after moving from Miami, the place from my childhood, to start my own family in New Mexico, my wife, and newborn child made a visit back to show my parents their new grandson. One night my wife and I went to...

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