Numinous Nonsense

My Sister Singing Acapella - It Breaks Your Heart

While the quality of the video isn’t fantastic, this is a great performance from my sister and her college acapella group. In this song, she is the primary singer, and she rocks it out! The song is called Fidelity, and is from Regina Spektor. Hey, if you can’t post YouTube videos of your [...]

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Oprah & Eckhart - What a Couple!

I downloaded the first episode of a 10-week session that Oprah Winfrey is doing with spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle. Check it out in iTunes if you’re interested. In part I’m happy that Eckhart’s teachings are getting this kind of exposure. The Power of Now was one of the first spiritual texts I [...]

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This is Extremely Embarassing

Warning: If you’re married or have been in a long-term relationship you may not want to watch this video…. Weekend Plans on FunnyOrDie.com I’ll admit, I make “weekend plans” with other couples. And I use Google Calendar to do it and have played Cranium with other couples. Why didn’t they just ask me to be [...]

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A Year by the Numbers

Here are some of the more substantial things that happened this year. How all of them came together in the same year, remains beyond me. Two Months on Retreat – This year I spent well over two months on retreat, with a two-month retreat at the beginning of the year at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, [...]

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Wearing Old Car Tires Rocks!

It’s about time (well, actually has been for some time) to get some new shoes. I looked around for a while, and finally found a brand of eco-shoes, called Simple Shoes, that I really like. I picked out a cool green pair, that is made out of recycle car tires, organic carbon, and [...]

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Care More and Couldn’t Care Less

Ken Wilber uses a phrase to describe the dual development of wisdom and compassion on the spiritual path, “Hurts More, Bothers you Less”. This is pointing to the relationship to suffering as one’s contemplative understanding deepens. Somehow suffering is more real, and hurts more deeply, but at the same time because one’s identity [...]

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