My only Teacher is Life.

...which is also to say that i live to learn.

(and that everyone/thing/place/event/moment is pregnant with value, significance and meaning for me)

My one True love is Love Itself.

...which is to say that i am the helplessly loyal devotee of mere Being Herself.

(and recognize "Her" in and as the bodily human forms of all my beloved friends, this miraculous planet and luminous empty stillness of Divine silence)

My only work is Seva to The Light.

...which is to say the creative service to the wellness, freedom and bliss of all beings.

(and allowing/supporting my service to take tangible form makes the "work" of it into play and the "managing" into magic)

My only meditation is Awe.

...or the conscious recognition, grateful submission and heart-driven celebration of The Mystery Itself.

(and playfully able to enjoy, but also free of cultic adhearance to, the traditional theater of spiritual practice, both ancient and new)

My greatest adventure, now that egoic seeking is but a helpless log on the fire of true service, is being part of making creative, practical and expedient responses to the challenges of our times.

....which, in my case, means the bringing together of like-minded, open-hearted people from all over this magical planet to transform our brightest visions into coolest solutions for peace, health and happiness.

(and so my tribe's portion of this world-wide-work will is, slowly but surely, crystallizing here: www.equilife.org)

My greatest trick is never forgetting (for long) to be always giving back all that we are always already Given.

....which is to say that in a life of constant change that is aimed, even from birth, at the "wall" we call death, what other way to be free?

( and so to "have and to hold" with open hands, to be always about the business of magnifying and passing on The Gift any way we can, this then is how to smile and hell and open the gates again to heaven).

*wonders how Flickr ever coaxed this mad ramble out of him on a busy Monday*

*smiles and shakes his foolish empty head a bit*

Here's wishing you ever deeper peace, humor, freedom and joy.

Here's welcome you as close as you feel called.

Here's celebrating the chance to ring this ancient bell that sounds out across the valley of mutual being:

"One...

One...

One...

...we are always already One".

-david