According to his bio, Neil Douglas-Klotz was “very privileged to study with the early students of the American Hebrew/Sufi mystic Samuel L. Lewis, who introduced me to the body prayer meditations called the Dances of Universal Peace.”  It is from that mystical perspective that Neil Douglas-Klotz interprets the Lord’s Prayer from the Aramaic.
In the first [...]

My parents are immigrants from the Netherlands.  Growing up, they did not speak a lot of Dutch, but occasionally would share a line in their native tongue.  Often, when asked what the line meant, they would respond that it was something that was difficult to translate.  It had meaning to them, but there was no [...]

In 1992, Ross Perot ran for President along with Vice-presidential candidate Admiral James Stockdale.  James Stockdale served in the U.S. Navy from 1947 to 1979.  During the time he spent in Vietnam, he was held in the famed “Hanoi Hilton” from 1965 to 1973.  Asked by James Collin, author of From Good to Great, how [...]

So today I have a call where I have to answer the question, “What is the biggest block to your Spiritual Growth?”  As a result, I have been thinking a lot about my Spiritual Growth.Â
What I’ve been thinking about is how Spiritual Growth can occur in many areas of your life.  You can grow through [...]

Many years ago I heard someone answer just right when asked how they were.  That phrase resonated with me and I began to use it myself.  How are you?  Just right!
Now, you may imagine that just right means that things are always great.  However, just right means just that.  Just right implies that whatever I [...]

So you might be asking, what’s up with the butterfly?  Of course there is the obvious, a butterfly represents transformation.  It enters the cocoon as a catepillar and emerges as a butterfly.  But there’s more to the story!
Science has discovered that the way a catepillar transforms into a butterfly is through imaginal cells.  These cells [...]

I have decided that it is time to start blogging! This blog, Celebrate Life, is my celebration of an awakening world.
Merriam-Websters online tells us that to celebrate is to honor. Therefore, this is a blog dedicated to honoring life in its many disguises.
So what is an awakening world, and just how do I expect to [...]