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Trust

Pete Buttigieg recently published a book, Trust: America's Best Chance, on Jimmy Carter's 95th birthday. A few years ago Carter was very kind to me (and other teachers at Emory) by talking in our classes.  He also did interviews with me on…

Grateful at Eighty-Eight

Lao Tzu called it Tao, "the Way," since it permeates everything and wants to draw me into peaceful places. Gratitude supplants fear for the most part as one grows older. I'm thankful older folk gave the love, resources, and guidance for me…

Elder Wisdom: The sacredness of our secular lives

Too many people still think of the secular and the sacred as separate categories. We can make distinctions, but real separation is misleading. We live in one interlinked world.

The secular and the sacred

In my writing I have often tried to point to a closer relationship between what we think of as the secular and the sacred. An intimate connection between them is not arbitrary or insignificant. In the first chapter of the Tao Te Ching we are told that the invisible ultimate is present in its everyday manifestations.

Webs of Life

Spirituality has been widely enlarged for me by Buddhist and Daoist insights as well as by Muslim and Christian mystics. The carpenter bees of aging are further clearing the field for me, bringing me down to experience the simplicity of God in every molecule of the universe.