I Think Of Spirit As That Which

Love To Me Is - The Final Lines In Dante's Paradiso, When He Says, "the Love That Moves The Sun And All The Stars" - It's What Draws Us Together, It's Why We Have Leaky Margins With Each Other. It Is That Sumptuous, Sensuous, Sensitive Quickening That Happens When We Really Know Ourselves As Love And See Ourselves As Loving.

We Are Still A Pioneer Culture In Some Ways. A Pioneer Culture Has To Put All Of Its Muscle Into Surviving On The Frontier And Pushing Back The Wilderness. So When You Start To Talk About Imagination, Inner Space, And The Structures Of The Psyche, That Becomes Scary.

Journalists Are Among A Select Group, Along With Warriors And Executioners Who Are Authorized To Do Harm. As James Fallows Says, A Lot Of Journalists Think That Isn't So, And That Everything Will Wash Out Ultimately. But I Don't Think They Are Aware Of The Long-term Damage.

What I Often Do In My Work Is To Take A Great Story, Such As The Odyssey, The Search For The Grail, The Story Of Jesus, Or The Story Of The Great Peacemaker Who Helped Create The Iroquois Confederacy In The 15th Century. I Then Use These Tales As Templates Upon Which To Weave Psychological And Spiritual Exercises Which Allow Us To Open Ourselves Up To The Larger Venue Of A Story.

I Am Deeply Activated By A Sense Of History, And Have Been Since I Was A Tiny Child. Really Feeling That These Were The Times, We Were The People, This Was The Most Critical Time In Human History. Other People Thought Their Times Were The Pinnacle And This Is It. This Is Where We Really, Together, Make A Decision Of Whether To Evolve Or Perish.