The Way and the Power of Virtue

  What you look for but cannot see is called obscured; what you listen for but cannot hear is called muffled; what you reach for but cannot grab hold of is called minute. These three cannot be exhaustively articulated, thus they are combined as aspects of Unity. There is always a Way – a Way forward, a Way upward, a Way out, a Way through, or a Way around – from wherever we are right now, to wherever we want to go.  The Way is always there, but we don’t always see it in the midst of our struggles and challenges – particularly in our fast-paced, info-saturated society of endless diversions and distractions.  So often we look for a Way but don’t see it; we strain to hear our inner voice, an intuitive voice that is being drowned out by the shrill cries of self-doubt and criticism.  We try to listen for a voice of inspiration over the cacophony of culture and the screams of society but there is just too much noise, too much static, too much interference.  W...

  When everyone in the world thinks it knows what to regard as beautiful,  there is ugliness – and that is ugly in and of itself.   When everyone thinks it knows what is best – that might not be the best. All social standards are subjective and create stereotypes. When a subjective social standard of what is beautiful is widely accepted and acknowledged by everyone, it automatically creates its opposite "ugliness" for all those who do not “fit” and that is despicable and ugly.  Every day we are bombarded with subjective stereotypes of "beauty."  Airbrushed images, doctored photos, and fake, fanciful facades  are all around us.  Every advertisement, every magazine at the grocery store checkout aisle, social media posts, TV shows, films -- they all perpetuate (willingly or unwittingly) a subjective social stereotype that is unrealistic, inauthentic, and disingenuine.  The truth is EVERYONE IS BEATIFUL   and amazing, unique and talented in ...