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…
Like This
If anyone asks you how the perfect satisfaction of all our sexual wanting will look, lift your face and say, Like this. When someone mentions the gracefulness of the nightsky, climb up on the roof and dance…
The Paradox of Humanity
Contradictions . . . for it is certain that as man’s insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he…
Planning How To Be Happy
We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in coming and were trying to hurry it up, or we recall the past as if to stay its…
After the Meditation
Now I see something in my listeners that won’t let me continue this way. The ocean flows back in and puts up a foam barrier, and then withdraws. After a while, it will come in again. This audience wants to…