I Am A Westerner. We're Not Going

Cars Are Part Of Our Genetic Makeup. It's Unavoidable.

Facing The Darkness, Admitting The Pain, Allowing The Pain To Be Pain, Is Never Easy. This Is Why Courage - Big-heartedness - Is The Most Essential Virtue On The Spiritual Journey. But If We Fail To Let Pain Be Pain - And Our Entire Patriarchal Culture Refuses To Let This Happen - Then Pain Will Haunt Us In Nightmarish Ways. We Will Become Pain's Victims Instead Of The Healers We Might Become.

What Is Common To All Paths That Are Spiritual Is, Of Course, The Spirit-breath, Life Energy, That Is Why All True Paths Are Essentially One Path, Because There Is Only One Spirit, One Breath, One Life, One Energy In The Universe. It Belongs To None Of Us And All Of Us. We All Share It. Spiritually Does Not Make Up Otherworldly; It Renders Us More Fully Alive.

We All Share Beauty. It Strikes Us Indiscriminately. There Is No End To The Beauty For The Person Who Is Aware. Even The Cracks Between The Sidewalk Contain Geometric Patterns Of Amazing Beauty. If We Take Pictures Of Them And Blow Up The Photographs, We Realize We Walk On Beauty Every Day, Even When Things Seem Ugly Around Us.

Work Should Be In Order To Live. We Don't Live In Order To Work. That Shift In Awareness Is Necessary.