New Year Blessing
May the year ahead bringan awareness of the wholeness already within you,a vision of the dreams you long for,signs of the birthing of new life,an experience of the peace you desire,the courage to enter new doors, cross thresholds,and discover possibilitiesyou…
Our True Salvation
A heart transformed by this realization of oneness knows that only love “in here,” in me, can spot and enjoy love “out there.” Fear, constriction, and resentment are seen by spiritual teachers to be an inherent blindness that must be…
Love Dogs
One night a man was crying, Allah! Allah! His lips grew sweet with the praising, until a cynic said, “So! I have heard you calling out, but have you ever gotten any response?” . The man had no answer to…
Late afternoon alone in the house
Late afternoon,darkness walks into the neighborhood,moves from room to room,wraps me sitting here,some kind of quiet that seeks time and space.Its partner stands up in me. I could deny it, get up and hit the lights.Turn on the TV and…
Year-end Letter from Doug Schroeder, SoulStream Director
December 2015 Dear Partners and Friends of SoulStream, I was moved when I read these words from a recent course participant: “Before taking Living From The Heart I had been searching and longing for something to help bring life back…
Learning to Walk in the Dark
In theological terms, this makes John (of the Cross) a teacher in the negative way, which does not mean that he is a pain to be around. It means that he does not try to teach by saying what God…
Childhood Friends (Part 1 and 2)
Part 1 (from last week) You may have heard, it’s the custom for kings to let warriors stand on the left, the side of the heart, and courage. On the right they put the chancellor, and…
Childhood Friends (Part 1)
You may have heard, it’s the custom for kings to let warriors stand on the left, the side of the heart, and courage. On the right they put the chancellor, and various secretaries, because the practice of…