Uradiance

   What is there to worry about in the present moment?  The mind of worry is the mind of time. Time is made of our thoughts. When these thoughts of past and future dissolve, there is no time. There is no worry.

The swan of your Name descends upon the breath of dawn to rest on the still lake of my beaten heart, where a golden mist of unfathomable kindness rises to kiss the sky, and many thirsty creatures come down by the water's edge to drink from our mystery. No need to murmur "Jesus, Jesus" with each heartbeat. No need to pray "So'ham, So'ham with each exhalation, "I am You, I am You." Silence understands. Lips and wings already know how to find this place without moving.     It’s almost midnight. I’ll tell you a secret. You are the candle. God is the moth.  Image: Matt Collishaw

    When the world is spinning off-center, a very deep spiritual practice is minding our own business.   Yes, that sounds self-centered. But who is the Self, and what does it really mean to be "centered?"   During desperate times, we tend to project our anxiety by becoming busy-bodies, crusaders, trying to save the world, to solve everyone else's problems but our own. Here's a humble suggestion: we might better respond to the chaos, not by minding other people's business, but minding our own, very lovingly, very carefully, very gently.   Minding our own business can profoundly affect others, like a flower that enhances the whole garden by releasing its peculiar essence, its unique beauty. When we learn to be wholly authentically ourselves, we radiate the quality of wholeness to others. Wholeness is a resonant field, as real as gravity or electromagnetism. The energy of a centered soul can center a community. This is not just the wo...