Our pupils are like stars and black holes. Like the sun, they illuminate everything around us. Yet, whatever light enters them is never seen again....

The sun is the eye of the soul, revealing all through our pupil, a black hole. As our iris filters the light of the sun, we each see differently which makes life fun....

The big Buddha statue sits in silent meditation, bird droppings encrusted on his cheeks like tears. Some sit at his feet with offerings and prayers, while a boy named Buddha laughs, swimming in the reflecting pond....

Each of us is a self that covers the soul. Like a shoe, the self is the visible surface atop the sole. However shiny and polished, a shoe is useless without a sole....

"Don't worry about the future, the present is all thou hast; the future will soon be present, and the present will soon be past." Family post card sent from Kansas to Tennessee, 1910. Courtesy of Kate Bowers. Homespun advice from the farm belt; reminiscent of Buddhist teachings, long before they were popularized in America....

The mind of God creates the universe. Our mind creates our world. When our mind merges with the mind of God, we are the universe....