When Our Inner Self Connects To Our

Healthy Mysticism Praises Acts Of Letting Go, Of Being Emptied, Of Getting In Touch With The Space Inside And Expanding This Until It Merges With The Space Outside. Space Meeting Space; Empty Pouring Into Empty. Births Happen From That Encounter With Emptiness, Nothingness. . . . Let Us Not Fight Emptiness And Nothingness, But Allow It To Penetrate Us Even As We Penetrate It.

The System Is Not Working. That Is How A Paradigm Shift Begins: The Established Way Of Seeing The World No Longer Functions.

Prayer Is Essentially About Making The Heart Strong So That Fear Cannot Penetrate There.

A Job Is Something We Do To Get A Paycheck And Pay Our Bills. Jobs Are Legitimate, At Times, But Work Is Why We Are Here In The Universe. Work And Calling Often Go Together.

Humor And Paradox Are Often The Only Ways To Respond To Life's Sorrow With Grace.