A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Each of us, when in extremity, may, in that moment, find it impossible to escape the net of anguish, but a single person with a simple gesture can open such a door for us.
“Love, compassion, wisdom, peace and joy are all in you. When you sit down and identify with your being, not your doing, you will find all these things in you and you will radiate joy and love. Then those who have been hard to relate to, you will mirror their souls and they will just be souls.”
“My body is 87, with all its aches and pains. I don’t identify with my body. I’m inside and I am infinite. I’m a soul and I watch the whole drama of my body, my personality and my ego. The witness, which is part of the soul, I identify with that rather than all the drama.”