Steal My Ideas, Please

Now I know this will sound a little … nuts / spacey / new agey / silly … you take your pick. But I had an interesting experience today. While in a store, I felt myself get quiet. Now I’m not saying relaxed or peaceful. Or mindless or egoless. No, I was just my normal self. […]

I’m crippled by love
Can’t talk, can’t get up off this couch
Somebody give me a shove
Cause I’m crippled by love
Did she do me wrong?
Maybe she did me so right
I can’t get her out
of my mental sight
Can’t eat, can’t smoke
can’t tell a joke
My body’s crushed by love,
like, held down from above
My mind’s all tied in knots
I’m too whacked […]

Some people aren’t so much selfish as they are, well, selfy. To coin a word. Or at least a meaning. (Apparently a self-portrait can be a “selfy.”) Selfish people worry about getting what’s theirs, whether it’s success, adulation, money, preferential treatment. Selfy people, on the other hand, can be nice and considerate, but they’re just […]

“Be here now” is familiar spiritual advice. To live in the timeless present is to be one with the One, to know God … or at least have a simpler, happier life. Ah, there’s always the rub of intention. Can’t try, can’t think, can’t conceptualize your way to true nowness. Indeed, if you overthink “here” […]

One reason we go crazy is that we’re taught to be of one mind. I mean, don’t we always have multiple reactions? Self-interest says, Darn, I’m disappointed, I wanted that job. Some higher side, your heart says, I’m happy that my friend got it. Everything is a mixed blessing, someone said. I think it was […]