on YouTube: "Silly Wizard Live at Center Stage"
published on May 21, 2014
(Minute 45:00 to minute 54:24)

Hilarious Scottish song, sung in old Scottish

The Parish Of Dunkeld
a town in the north of Scotland

Oh, what a parish, a terrible parish;
Oh, what a parish is that o' Dunkeld
They hangit their minister, droon'd their precentor.

Dang doun the steeple and fuddled the bell
The steeple...

I just learned that a former friend of over 30 years, from whom I had drifted away, passed away a little over a year ago.

I have such conflicted feelings. On one hand I feel sad that she's no longer with us, but on the other hand I feel disconnected and numb about her passing. She is the one who inspired and caused me to move to Phoenix which was a very good experience for me, even though she moved away a year later.

I do know that she's probably happy to be gone....

Cleverness and complexity are not necessarily wisdom

Bowl of Saki, August 20, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Man likes complexity. He does not want to take only one step; it is more interesting to look forward to millions of steps. The one who is seeking the truth gets into a maze, and that maze interests him. He wants to go through it a thousand times more.


It is just like children. Their whole interest is in running about; they do not want to see the...

The lover of nature is the true worshipper of God

Bowl of Saki, August 13, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Hazrat Inayat Khan:

A true worshipper of God sees His presence in all forms, and thus in respecting others he respects God. It may even develop to such an extent that the true worshipper of God, the Omnipresent, walks gently on the earth, bowing in his heart even to every tree and plant, and it is then that the worshipper forms a communion with...

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.