Musing Mystic Blog

“Seek and you will surely find.”

I believe that a changed heart is really the name of the game, the central aim of the spiritual life.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves. ― Leo Tolstoy. As always with an out-there misfit …

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For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances …

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I got a reminder the other day—I need lots of reminders—by one of my spiritual sisters who, like my myself, had walked …

The promise of inner peace is a key component of all major spiritual traditions. Achieved, through spiritual practice, and thus a direct relationship with the living God, who is peace and love personified. Inner peace is perfect calm and balance, irrespective of external circumstances.

Divinized, immortalized, changed into citizens of peace I’ve been too far-flung places, went sailing on a ship of fools. All firmly in the …

There is nothing in this beautiful but broken world that does not have the breath of God in it, absolutely nothing! God is without and within and gives love and life to everything. If I’m separated from my sisters and brothers or indeed the birds and the bees, I’m separated from God. If I want to get fully connected to God, I must seek that connection through the other, every other.     

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. — Mother Teresa. High or …

God's Peace Now

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.” ― Albert Einstein. I recall listening to a fella …

Doing Peace Practice

I do not want the peace which passes understanding; I want the understanding which brings peace. — Helen Keller. Few things are …

There’s a brand spanking new set of tailor-made wings on offer, comrades, coupled with a God given primary purpose just waiting for each one of us. Once we find our wings and don them, we can fly high, helping other broken folks get their shiny new wings of compassion and other-centered agape love, fully airborne, too. Now it just doesn’t get any better than that!

“There is a crack in everything; that’s how the light gets in.” Leonard Cohen. Eventually, we nearly all take a reluctant stroll …

Heaven on Earth

There is an anecdote told in a book by a sober booze hound called Chuck C, about an hour he spent over …

Spirituality of the heart

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive. – Charlotte …

Finding God in all things

What do we want? Answers? When do we want them? Now! We can all fall hook-line-and-sinker for the seductive modern urge for quick fixes and simple answers. Just …

Spirit Breath

What if the living God is not missing out in the mystic heavens somewhere but is as close as our next breath? …