I think that people should give gifts by really recognizing the spiritual worth of the person and their (the givers') own worth. You usually give a present that the other person needs or wants, and I think it just emphasizes wants and needs.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

We kill each other over which name to call the Nameless.

Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.

I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are

Suffering brings me so close to God.

We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.