The Torah teaches, “Choose life…” Choose life. Choose blessing. Choose laughter. Choose openness to change. Choose fearlessness. Choose spaciousness. Choose loving-kindness. Choose walking. Choose dancing. Choose listening. Choose quieting. Choose responding. Choose awakening. Choose seeing. Choose breathing. Choose compassion. Choose community. Choose learning. Choose honesty. Choose equanimity. Choose love. Choose life.
I believe
I believe with perfect faith in imperfect faith I believe with imperfect faith in perfect doubt I believe doubtingly in certainty and I certainly believe in doubt. I believe lightly in the heaviness of existence and I have heavy belief in the lightness of being. I have lingering belief in permanence and permanent belief in […]
A Calendar Appointment with Myself
Tomorrow is my 37th birthday. This evening I received an “Outlook” invitation to an appointment called, “Micah.” Location? “Out.” Basically this means that one of my colleagues invited me and a few other folks to lunch on my birthday. But when the calendar invitation first came through I had the uncanny experience of accepting an […]
Live Deeply
I’m inspired once again by Thich Nhat Hahn’s writings in “Teachings on Love”: Each moment of our lives, each moment that is given to us to live, we have to live very deeply. If you are capable of living deeply one moment of your life, you can learn to live the same way all the […]
On Happiness
In “Teachings on Love,” a book I highly recommend, Thich Nhat Hahn writes, Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually being happy. We fail to see the opportunity for joy that is right in front of us when we are […]
The Great Unsilent
Be still. As still as humanly possible. And listen. Listen. As humanly and humanely as you can. More than likely. A deafening sound. Will reveal itself to you. Through you. In the stillness of your listening. —- Imagine yourself at the top of a mountain. Or at the bottom of the ocean. In a meadow […]