I was texting with a friend who uses a microphone to create texts. The phrase my friend was saying was "guard rails", but what came across my phone in text was "God reels". As a person who is sensitive to the way God often speaks quite softly through seemingly incoherent promptings, I was delighted with this erroneous phraseology. "God reels" exactly describes the seeings or many times hearings or feelings that later turn out to be signposts along the way of our spiritua

“In the Yoga as in life it is the man [the human] who persists unwearied to the last in the face of every defeat and disillusionment and of all confronting, hostile and contradicting events and powers who conquers in the end and finds his [their] faith justified because to the soul and Shakti [Divine's power imaged as the Universal Mother] in man [the human] nothing is impossible.” Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga , 773 “But outward circumstances are only a cover for the

I finally got the opportunity to visit Mary's House and check on its condition. I had been alerted by a friend that it had been broken into and that things had been "gone through". I also knew that weather would have continued to take its toll. Such sources of chaos were expected. What I did not anticipate, however, was vandalism for no apparent reason other than some incomprehensible desire for destruction. Broken glass everywhere, smashed religious statues, shattered T

We are slowly settling in here in Gorham, Maine. My space, one large room, is divided by curtains into public and private space. The...