"AUTHOR"

I have traveled many lifetimes on my journey here.  I have sailed calm waters and battled violent seas.  I have tripped over pebbles yet floated gracefully over uneven ground.  I have never turned away from a mountain or an impasse because it was “too hard”.  I have climbed and I have fallen.  I have soared and I have crashed.  I have embraced the light at the height of my achievements, and befriended the darkness at the depths of my failures.  I have learned priceless lessons from both.  

 The temptation to take the “easy road” has called to me many times, but the price I knew I would pay was never worth the “ease of the way”.  In every dark crevasse I have extracted untold treasures that I only wish to share.  In the sunlight, I have mined precious gem-lets whose value is greatest when illuminated for all to read.  I have celebrated life even as I balanced on the precipice of death.  I have contemplated death each time it’s shadow crossed my path, only to conclude that I have no time for its inconvenience. 

 I have but one purpose on my life’s journey; to evolve spiritually into a being worth knowing.  I do not desire fame; I thrive in anonymity.  I do not chase wealth; I search for the gold that is “wisdom”.  I forge my legacy with the gifts that were bestowed on me, articulating the lessons I have learned along the way.  And when this journey ends and I embark on the one hereafter, if I have been successful in this life, people will read me and remember not my name, how I looked, or how I lived, but only the truth of the wisdom I learned and shared along the way. 

 

Then and only then will I consider myself a true “author”.

 

 tls 2013

DO YOU BELIEVE?

 TLS 2015

Do you believe? 

Do you believe that everything that happens in your life has meaning; every personal encounter, every “coincidence”, every joy, every sorrow; all of them happen for a reason?  I do.

To me, life has no meaning if it is not a quest for spiritual growth.  We are all on a journey, navigating a path toward the advanced soul we are meant to become.  The great prophets knew this.  They were endowed with a deeper understanding of life’s meaning than most of us can hope to achieve in our lifetime.  They came to understand early that the gift of “a life” was not about them, but about what they could give to the world - a message of peace, a lesson in tolerance, an example of integrity; an understanding of unconditional love.

I am not special.  I do not have any great “secrets” of life to share with you.  Like you, I am on a quest for spiritual growth.  So why read this?  Perhaps because I have been to places only accessible to those who have lived life on the edge, in that shadow world between life and death.  It is disease that taught me the fundamentals of spiritual growth – to give more than you take, to listen more than you talk, to honor your gifts, to instill joy in all you meet simply by smiling; to light the way for others who find themselves in the darkness.  What is a “righteous” life, if it is not joyous, selfless, and authentic?

Do you believe?