Tag Archives: healing
Are You Receiving Gifts or Trying to Learn Lessons?
People have told me that Planet Earth is a school, and we are here to learn our lessons. I disagree. I believe we are here to love. That’s it. Just to love. When we love, we see all that comes … Continue reading
Intuition, Be Here Now, and Mindfulness
Flashes of intuition often come when we least expect them, but to receive them we must be present for ourselves. As Ram Dass said back in the 1970s, “Be here now.” But what does that mean? Here’s an article I … Continue reading
An Easy Way to Find Right Answers
Recently, when shopping for a pair of sneakers, I had to excuse myself to get past a woman and her daughter who were blocking the aisle. The daughter was trying on several pairs of sneakers, and the mother looked a … Continue reading
A Gnostic Tale
(Following is one version of the story. In other versions, the prince is a boy, the son of the king of kings, who is sent to Egypt to retrieve a pearl from a serpent. During his quest, he is seduced … Continue reading
Are You an Old Soul or a Young Soul?
For years I heard people talk about old souls and young souls and I didn’t pay much attention. What did it matter how old or young a soul was? As I’ve contemplated the age of a soul and why it … Continue reading
Living Life as a Prayer
For years my prayer was to live my life as a prayer. It took many more years to come to understand what that meant, and had I known, I just might not have prayed so hard . . . or … Continue reading
An Irish Story of Love and Peace
When I was in Northern Ireland, I signed the Peace Wall on the Irish Catholic side. This was a big deal because my last name is Rankin. My ancestors were Scot-Irish and even though they fought in the Siege of … Continue reading
Piper Forgives Herself
I’m a good girl. Really I am. Mom tells me so all the time. She never reminds me of the day I wasn’t a good girl. The day I sent my Yorkie sibling over the doggy rainbow bridge. I was … Continue reading
Phillip’s Wisdom on Anger
Phillip: Anger is a form of fear. Fear is the opposite of love. To truly know the appreciation of love, fear must be known. Do you not judge evil by that which you call good? Is it not in … Continue reading
Who or What Is God?
If we ask, “What is God?” as opposed to “Who is God?” our deeper listening gives us a different answer. In our language, we have reduced God to a pronoun. By doing so, we have created God in our image … Continue reading