Our minds operate on two tracks, right or wrong, but if we’re serious about truth, we will move beyond those two tracks, beyond received concepts, to fully experience the moment we’re in, align with its flow to find principles for entering all moments. youtu.be/4iSC17jMj6E

Someone once called me a “functional heretic.” Not sure what he meant, but I took it to mean pushing the envelope just short of too far. With that definition, we should all be functional heretics, willing to question established systems and beliefs... youtu.be/g8dA4UsIn_Q

I've always known I was adopted, but new information about my mother is unmooring who I've always thought I was. We don’t need a new origin story to begin remembering who we really are, but we do need to learn to cling less to the one we have. youtu.be/_KG8sEeM3-U

We drove to ER, and soon as the surgeon saw the images, scheduled surgery for that afternoon. If left any longer, she could lose all function below the waist. I waved goodbye, as they strapped her in the ambulance taking her to a surgical hospital... youtu.be/ogEVHs2CWio

Nothing like a nice existential crisis to dig up questions of identity. Who am I? Of course. But beyond that, who’s asking? And beyond that, what does it mean that I can even ask such a question? Talking about consciousness. What is consciousness? youtu.be/cjy3MI5HHYs

In response to Charlie Kirk’s assassination, within Christian circles, one group is becoming militant, vowing to fight to bring the country back to Christian values. A second appears to be growing despondent, feeling disenfranchised by their church... youtu.be/4XrvQyXQ0KI

Life is not a machine to diagram, a math problem to solve, or a task to complete. When Jesus says that he is the way, truth, and life, he is trying to teach us that meaning is not a thing to be thought, but a person to be experienced. youtu.be/vgSjewnqSBc

Looking in the eyes of a newborn, whose brain is still formatting like a new hard drive, there are no thoughts or concepts. But there is presence. A presence that can’t be defined in words because it precedes them. youtu.be/cmj7TWKdE38

Quantum superposition mirrors the ancient Hebrew view of human life lived out between heaven and earth, between God’s realm of wavelike unity, of infinite potential and possibility, and earth, the place of individual form and function—particles. youtu.be/Yu8cuD0t-5U

God occupies space beyond thought and performance. If we can stop naming God, trying to understand and dominate for just a moment, we enter God’s space and experience what we’ll never understand. Relax, understanding is overrated... youtu.be/u289gvBUrCQ

To overcome the fear and uncertainty that radical change represents, to persevere through the time it takes to assimilate radical change, we need a tremendous amount of desire. Where does such desire come from? youtu.be/ai-5E6SRdCQ

The bible is the map of a journey to the experience of infinite resource, unlimited love. When we stop defending it, asking it questions it won’t answer…it can begin pointing us to trust what we can never understand—only experience. youtu.be/NVlMsnhbwI4

When I’d tell people the title of my book, The Fifth Way, first question was: what are the first four? That made perfect sense, because you can’t understand the fifth way of Jesus until you understand how the first four operate in our lives. youtu.be/kPuBcse75Uw

Jesus said the highest form of love is loving the enemy: loving—identifying with—someone who had not earned the right to that gift. And the flip side: the highest form of gratitude is being thankful for something we believe we have already earned. youtu.be/Zcz1QfBOogk

Disturb us, Lord, when we are too pleased with ourselves, when dreams come true because we dreamed too little, when we arrived safely because we sailed too close to the shore…Measure your disturbance. If you can’t find any, you’re too close to the shore. youtu.be/onZ_xDPHNDY

Truth is, every one of us can only see what we’re prepared to see. Confirmation bias eats up the rest. The point the few details of Jesus' birth make is that our God is an unassuming God, a humble, vulnerable God who must be believed to be seen. youtu.be/ywAb_CVnaSE

Where do we find real meaning? In leaving a legacy the world remembers even as we are forgotten? Something more immediate? The question places us right at the crux of life. Solomon realizes all that matters is contained in this moment and nowhere else. youtu.be/uxFBkHPHZrk

As long as we’re working for what we already have, we’re not living the abundance that already is. We’re not here to acquire something to make us whole or acceptable. We’re here to fall in love with love itself, the all-poured-out-ness of in-love-ness. youtu.be/N9xbmQcrcIU

We’re not here to do the things we do. We’re here to be so connected that we are indistinguishable from, one with, God and all that is. Jesus is trying to rewire the way we look at the world, give us back our priorities. youtu.be/MbAhXEshibQ

The infinite has no edges, nothing to hold on to. As soon as we put the infinite in words, it’s no longer infinite. Words have edges, defined limits, so the best we can do in words is poetry, which points to meaning without creating edges that limit. youtu.be/iwmQgphftCk