You might remember the song "Love is in the Air" by John Paul Young, a disco song that made its way into the Australian romantic comedy "Strictly Ballroom" or, if you're like 99% of people on earth, you might not. In either case, it is an uplifting song, which means to me that it is …
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True or False
True religion is real living, where every thought, word and deed binds fast the material world with the incorporeal. True religion is the generation of the connecting substance which allows for the transmutation of love and truth into tangible, coherent life expression. True religion cannot be limited to a common set of rites, rituals and …
Your Art
"When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard." - O. Henry When you live from the outside-in, what you are doing takes on greater importance than how you are doing it. When, conversely, you live from the inside-out, what you are doing pales in comparison to what you bring to the activity. The …
Unfurling Love’s Creation
I recently introduced two dear friends to the remarkable musical compositions of the writer, composer, Christian mystic and visionary, Hildegard von Bingen. Saint Hildegard, or Sybil of the Rhine as she is also known, was a Benedictine abbess who founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg and Eibingen in the 1100s. Among other things, Saint Hildegard left …
The Bitter Glass
The Two Trees by William Butler Yeats Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start And all the trembling flowers they bear. The changing colours of its fruit Have dowered the stars with merry light; The surety of its hidden root Has planted quiet in …
The Tough Choices
When it comes to life lessons, the hardest are often the most valuable. I had two conversations yesterday that reminded me of one such lesson I learned years ago and I am pleased to share it with you today. The principle around which this lesson centers is simple and well-known, but not often heeded: cut …
What every man seeks
"What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence, so long as he deems himself the center and object of effort. His mind is spent in vain upon itself. Not in action itself, not in "pleasure," shall it find its desires satisfied, but in the …
The Foundation
"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. The desire to take of an eye for an eye is an almost instinctive reaction. It is one of the trademarks of an emotionally stunted adult, and …
Good and Evil
You needn't hate evil to love good. The failure to understand this point is the crack in the foundation of most of the world's great religions. Hatred is a powerful form of worship. It consumes those who possess it in their hearts and left unchecked it leads to obsession. I've often observed supposedly good people …
Expression and Refinement
"Sheltered behind the wall of repression our kindest thoughts, our deepest feelings of appreciation, are worthless unless translated into word or act that make them real to hungry waiting ears, or eager watching eyes. Corked up in the silence of the unspoken, they do not exist. It is only expression that counts. All the light, …
Gregory Hake 