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Speaking spiritually聽is not simply speaking about spiritual matters. It also involves speaking from your own unique relationship with the Spirit about what matters most to you.

The power that our words carry is a theme that I often go back to - an idea that I have spent a lot of time reflecting on.

The middle way is an approach to life- whether monastic or as a householder- tethered to suchness. Suchness means, in practice, that only harm actually matters.

Recently I vacationed at an all-inclusive, gated, 5 star resort in Jamaica. Well, 4.5 stars, actually; but that is another story.

A while back I began to hear a lot about 鈥渃onfirmation bias鈥� and 鈥渕otivated reasoning鈥�.

"Always seems to me / 'Sorry' seems to be the hardest word." -- Elton John Sir Elton John and Bernie Taupin are right: it's extraordinarily hard to say that you've done something wrong and hurt somebody. But I think there's an even harder word.

Over the last few months, my family 鈥� like many others in Canada and the US 鈥� seriously considered our safety and well-being in a part of the world that is often heralded as the bastion of freedom.

I don鈥檛 know about you, but I have spent most of 2017 so far longing for the light to come back. Is it just me, or has our normally grey West Coast winter been even greyer? The prolonged {for us) snow and cold haven鈥檛 helped, either, I suppose.

The Jewish holiday of Purim is quickly approaching. It begins on the evening of March 11 and continues through the next day, Sunday the 12th. The holiday of Purim has its roots in the Biblical Book of Esther.

From our 12 th -storey window overlooking the Salish Sea, I can see the communities nestled along the West Shore, across the snowy peaks of Washington to the south and over to Trial Island in the east.