Let every setback be a catalyst for learning to let more deeply. To let what? To let your heart come to rest, so that you can listen and hear more clearly and so that you can see more clearly. Listen to what more clearly? To listen with your heart to the still small voice within. …
Author: Gregory Hake
Son. Husband. Father. Thinker. Doer.
Chastened and Rebuked
The measure of a man is what he does when he is chastened and rebuked by an ideal, or the ideal, be it God or kindlier Nature. The petty tyrant will take offense and mount a self-righteous crusade. The coward will retreat into the shadows of shame and futility. The wicked will double down on …
The Accuser
The unwillingness to forgive has long been an impediment to human progress, but nowadays it seems as if we're accumulating unforgiven things in the individual body and in the body of humanity–of which we are all a part–faster than any other period of time in human history. Scan the news and the social feeds of …
Today
Good morning! It is a great day to be alive. I recognize what a privilege it is to be here, on earth, in this day and age, and I am delighted to acknowledge and fully discharge the responsibility that comes with the gift of life I have been given. No matter what comes my way …
The Illusion of the Unreal
"The heavens themselves, the planets and this centreObserve degree, priority and place,Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,Office and custom, in all line of order."(Shakespeare, Ulysses, Act 1 Scene 3) Appearances can be deceiving. In fact, most of what we observe in our daily affairs in the world as it now is, is illusory. This is not …
Serve Selflessly
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”—John 15:13 To lay down your life is to serve selflessly: to protect the weak, to uplift the poor in spirit, and to demonstrate decency and draw forth dignity, regardless of the circumstance. This is not sacrifice; this, my …
Refine or Coarsen
Every situation you face, every conversation you engage in, and every feeling you choose to back with the weight of your thoughts, words and deeds gives you the opportunity to either refine or coarsen on the physical, mental, and 'spiritual expression' planes of being. Choose refinement and you will move closer to an experience of …
Strenuous Liberty
Nations grown corruptLove bondage more than liberty;Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.~ John Milton If history tells us anything, it is that the greater part of men prefer security to liberty. Most it seems are not even aware that they are making a choice. They go about their lives, entranced by the world around them, …
Your Purpose in Life
Truth—objective, eternal abstract truth—comes to point in relation to the particular configuration of circumstances of the present moment. If you know the pattern of truth in the present moment, you are released from blinders of ignorance. Knowing truth in this sense sets you free.
Who are you?
You are not here to struggle, suffer, and cope with the world as it is become. Neither are you here to “get by” until your time is up. You are here to create, to reveal the greatness that comes to focus in the true you.
Gregory Hake 